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Speaking as a dev and, therefore, someone who's used to viewing DBAs as a bunch of process Nazis (only kidding - but you know what I mean) seeing so many...
February 5, 2016 at 5:48 am
We're really after BIDS rather than Report Builder (which is a bit rubbish IMO).
Anyway, I finally found this in the SQL Server EULA (probably should have been the first place...
July 12, 2015 at 4:09 am
Also count just counts all non null values. Unless one of the values returned from your switch is a Nothing you're just going to get a count of all...
July 10, 2015 at 4:35 am
I've spent almost all of my career building desktop line of business apps. I'm probably not as rabidly anal about standards as some of the more vociferous DBAs that...
March 11, 2015 at 7:59 am
Run Hadoop on a single node...
True but you might as well say "Chop a horses legs off and all you've got is pedigree chum." The whole point of Hadoop...
January 15, 2015 at 8:31 am
Should I make the move to a more structured IT firm?
Ultimately you should do what makes you happy and if you're enjoying what you're doing now then there's a strong...
December 23, 2014 at 9:42 am
Process is only beneficial if it provides a benefit. Sadly most process exists because it provides someone, somewhere with *** coverage. Providing a benefit and covering an ***...
December 23, 2014 at 7:23 am
I think that the editorial was deliberately overly simplistic to encourage a debate
Yeah, I know. I didn't mean that to sound like as much of a bite as it might...
October 28, 2014 at 9:24 am
I have to say I found the article to be overly simplistic. It essentially says:-
Some managers are bad => all managers are bad
Some companies have too many managers =>...
October 28, 2014 at 5:08 am
...and how does that work with TDD?
TDD favours small methods so very well. If you're in the camp that says you should only write test against the required functionality...
September 17, 2014 at 10:15 am
It would be interesting to see how realistically maintainable software is after a decade of changes.
I only started making a concious effort to switch style 2 or 3 years ago...
September 17, 2014 at 8:50 am
The code does not contain the essential information that it is a Newton-Raphson approximation.
Actually I agree with you there and I think it's the one flaw in the article. ...
September 17, 2014 at 8:07 am
I'm sure this'll invite some ire but I hate comments in code. I view the need to write a comment as a personal failure for which I should locked...
September 17, 2014 at 7:21 am
Every business decision is about risk vs reward.
The truth is that for many small businesses the cost of a fully trained and qualified DBA is a high and the risk...
September 8, 2014 at 8:37 am
It's all so very "big company".
In a smaller outfit like this with only half a dozen in the dev team covering DBA, design, development and day-to-day application support, you...
July 23, 2014 at 5:55 am
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