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Rachel Byford (5/4/2016)
Big Data is my pet hate - people mostly have no idea what it means, and then use it when they only mean Rather Large Data! :w00t:
That, and...
May 4, 2016 at 10:57 am
Ah, Anthony Burgess - a more brilliant polymath one might not find!
May 3, 2016 at 10:59 am
Andy Warren (5/3/2016)
The other side of jargon is that it's often required to fit into the culture. I'll grant it can be overdone, but I can just picture someone saying...
May 3, 2016 at 9:59 am
For me, perhaps the most confusing acronym is ... DBA.
Some DBAs are far more accomplished in knowledge and experience than others. Some (such as the esteemed 'Phil Factor') are wizards...
May 2, 2016 at 9:14 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/24/2016)
GoofyGuy (3/24/2016)
ANSI evolves slowly in part because it doesn't get support from vendors. Supporting ANSI would give us better, cheaper products which don't require the...
March 24, 2016 at 1:04 pm
Gary Varga (3/24/2016)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/24/2016)
March 24, 2016 at 11:44 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/24/2016)
GoofyGuy (3/24/2016)
Greater adherence to the ANSI standard by the vendors might reduce some of the problems Mr Jones notes.
ANSI evolves slowly, and doesn't always meet...
March 24, 2016 at 10:39 am
Far too often there are developers that write inefficient code because they apply techniques they've learned from programming applications in some other language, or even from some other relational database.
Far...
March 24, 2016 at 9:47 am
Eric M Russell (12/9/2015)
GoofyGuy (12/9/2015)
December 9, 2015 at 1:41 pm
If the promise of quantum computing is realised, a great deal of data might be stored in a series of superimposed states. It may not be an exaggeration to say...
December 9, 2015 at 9:07 am
... a top-end consultant probably wouldn't be interested in anything other than a challenge.
So then ... the less-exalted aren't interested ever in challenges, they're just in it for the...
October 28, 2015 at 1:25 pm
This is my favourite pet peeve which is the departmentalisation cancer that is the Service Management model of IT. Rules are made on one level, ignored by competing teams at...
October 22, 2015 at 9:28 am
Even when larger companies limit rights for developers, I've too often seen operations staff log in and allow developers to change systems to get them working.
What does 'get them...
October 20, 2015 at 9:45 am
Don't also misunderstand that bad management is not always universally bad. Some people like managers that many others consider bad. Some continue to prosper, despite bad management.
Don't worry about my...
October 19, 2015 at 12:32 pm
Bad management can have everybody running in circles, and think that all is well because employee utilization is near 100 percent.
Exactly so. It's astonishing how many managers seem to confuse...
October 19, 2015 at 11:18 am
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