I use to work with him.

🙂

Read the editorial, followed the links to see what the agenda would be for the SQL in Seattle meeting. I think it might be interesting to attend. I am...

Gary Varga (8/23/2014)

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Miles Neale (8/22/2014)

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Gaz, respectfully, your historical perspective might...

Came late to the game due to holidays away. Great question, thanks!

Gaz, respectfully, your historical perspective might be too short. ...

Eric M Russell (8/7/2014)

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Measuring page reads would be more quantifiable than measuring duration. Duration can be influenced...

Eric M Russell (8/7/2014)

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The Fault (8/7/2014)

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Eric M Russell (8/7/2014)

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Even if the QA environment only has 10% the data volume as production; so long as the object schemas, configuration, and data...

Thanks Gaz! Testing is imperative and any test no matter how valid or invalid it is thought to be is welcomed. Sometimes the most poorly thought out test...

Over the years trying to solve some frustrating problems that seem to have no answer, I have found the problem to be about that stupid. Far too often we...

Gary Varga (8/5/2014)

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Miles Neale (8/5/2014)

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Some may feel that there is additional work to build a stored procedure and the code to execute it, but the mitigated risk and flexibility is...

TomThomson (8/2/2014)

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fregatepllada (8/1/2014)

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I usually stay shy from using ANY triggers - IMHO unless you implementing certain "JOB CREATION SCHEME". My usage of triggers was limited to populating historical tables when...

Andrew, the last line in your post reminded me of something from years ago. For the jobs that failed...

Developers have in the past cursed bean counters for various reasons. However there are reasons for counting and tracking. Maybe we need to regularly check and see if...

Thanks for the...

Steve,

I agree with all that is said but with the caveat that once the product is determined "production ready" this all kicks in.

I have over the years been...