Here's a rule--clarify, don't simplify.

I do a lot of data warehousing, where someone has made a lot of money calling lookup tables dimensions. If you want to confuse the heck out of your users,...

Good and bad are such loaded terms...like everything, it depends on what you are trying to optimize for. The article was kind of hard to understand, but what I bring...

Is it a coincidence that this kind of standards slippage occurred after Oracle started doing its development exclusively in India? I think not!

To a man with a hammer, everything is a nail--Mark Twain.

Programmers are even worse--Stephen Hirsch

I'll use what I get paid to use, it's simple. I like Oracle because I'm used...

If I may respectfully disagree with nunYoBusiness...I've found that degrees are a useless indicator of developer capability. I've found that typical engineering principles are only useful with embedded development, writing...

Thanks Bob...oy, more syntax to learn. If the old way works, let's keep it!

I thought that null = null always evaluates to false. It's news to me that null in any boolean expression would ever evaluate to a value other than false. Who...

Thank you David for your kind words...I guess that Good or Bad is like determining the direction that the Earth spins (i.e., clockwise/counterclockwise)--it depends on your perspective.

Well, you can't control what you can't measure. And you can't measure software development, at least not with objective measures that are the normal basis for quality metrics. Therefore...

Just some...

Ummm, dude, writing TSQL (or PL/SQL or just plain SQL for that matter) is coding. Period. Same as writing Java, C#, C++, whatever.

Also, there are 4 basic metrics of sw...

Which arguments?

Hi,

Let me give everybody a tip here. LaTeX is this fantastic mark up language that produces camera ready PDF, fully bookmarked, fully annotated directly. Works like a charm.

Steve

I find this dynamic SQL vs Stored Procedure discussion a bit strange, as I am an Oracle guy (getting familiar with SqlServer), because in Oracle I always put dynamic SQL...

In my apps, there is no client. These are server to server apps, ETL. Security is not an issue.

I would never hire any developer who thought there was only one...