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  • RE: Overcoming Proposal Objections

    Timing is everything, and having an honest company structure

    Too early in a project then you can be seen as the doom-&-gloom merchant.

    Too late and it will be seen as...

  • RE: The Value of Code

    Jeff Moden (12/1/2014)


    ......The only thing that really changes over time is the amount of data, the speed of throughput (thanks to tools available or built), and the rate of change.

    The...

  • RE: How Often Does Production Drift?

    Drift?? More like herding cats!!!

  • RE: Bucket List Data

    Gary Varga (11/14/2014)


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    I saw a concert recently where so many people where not watching and enjoying the performers but were watching through their mobiles like they were cameramen and women....

  • RE: When is 8000 too small?

    Gary Varga (10/23/2014)


    Yet Another DBA (10/23/2014)


    ...Just as well .Net assemblies can be added to SQL it gets over a lot of problems.

    Not sure that I like the thought of being...

  • RE: When is 8000 too small?

    Lynn Pettis (2/10/2010)


    I take it that the 8060 byte limit has its roots with Sybase. ....

    Actually Sybase had different page sizes that was determined at initial configuration of the...

  • RE: Why Would You Move?

    courtney.smith (10/20/2014)


    I'd argue against that. I don't think that expensive and difficult are really on the same wavelength / scale for comparison.

    What's so expensive about MS development? SQL...

  • RE: Why Would You Move?

    Why move?

    Because the company wants to move away from the expensive and hence difficult MS Stack and use LAMP because it is free and "any computer language is easy to...

  • RE: Swallowing the Camel

    Gary Varga (9/16/2014)[ ...

    What I think is missed is that there can be a difference between business data rules and business application rules.

    ...

    All too often I just...

  • RE: Swallowing the Camel

    courtney.smith (9/16/2014)


    It's not really a case of when business rules can't be done in the database it's a case of that its a pretty bad practice to duplicate rules or...

  • RE: Swallowing the Camel

    call.copse (9/16/2014)


    Ask a developer to use a stored procedure and majority will look at you as if you are mad.

    Not really in my experience. Some are better than others, but...

  • RE: Swallowing the Camel

    It will always be an ongoing battle.

    Ask a developer to use a dll, RESTful service ... Fine no worries.

    Ask a developer to use a stored procedure and majority will...

  • RE: Production Subsets

    john.riley-1111039 (8/22/2014)


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    * So often, I have seen systems go live only to be beset by severe performance problems which needed to be addressed urgently. Using a full size database...

  • RE: Production Subsets<!-- 864 -->

    As long as the data is scrubbed so that it doesnt break the data protection laws then a full dataset can be easier. But that always takes time and most...

  • RE: Bronze Age Development<!-- 864 -->

    "Never test! What's the point, the client will tell us what they really want and then we will look great as a company when we fix it and deliver it."

    Paraphrased...

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