Run for the hills, the Softbots are taking over the world!!!!!

Or is it Redgate trying to acquire ideas from us mere mortals by manipulating our paranoia . 😛

On a...

Sad to say, that I know of companies (and I do mean the plural) that still don't backup.

I also know of people whos job role has either been SysAdmins...

t.franz (9/16/2016)

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I'm missing BULK EXPORT.

Another point: even if you can do some OS-like stuff with SQL Server, the account that...

As soon as I read the title I thought of your blood pressure 😉

I try and get the developers to see the sprocs as an interface much like a RESTful or api. So easy to setup testing or mocks against and they don't...

Its not the roles disappearing in the short term it where they are moving to.

Live in a small city or town and the opportunities are a lot less than...

Solomon Rutzky (8/23/2016)

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More specifically,...

Cool, so no down side in turning ansi_warnins off then? In fact by your suggestion it would even help the lazy developer who will not check for a divide by...

Rick-153145 (8/4/2016)

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Just an aside to this, under data protection laws (at least here in the UK), personal data should be stored encrypted, so if that is the case, it really...

Knowing my colleagues they would suggest that the database should not be used like this, but may be suitable to have a column that stores JSON for the names. ...

David.Poole (7/26/2016)

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I get the point about 10x data loads but that is stress testing rather than unit testing.

.....If they have to sit around for 5 minutes or longer waiting for...

Time to leave?

Hmm, with some companies its the day after I started.

geoff-532101 (6/9/2016)

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I find abstraction overdone, but I am firstly a developer and secondly a DBA. In fact, we write a lot of code precisely to replace tedious DBA involvement, leaving...

hakim.ali (6/7/2016)

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lshanahan (6/7/2016)

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It always makes me scratch my head when developers who practically quote chapter and verse on loose coupling, abstraction and programming to an interface scream bloody murder when...

Eric M Russell (6/2/2016)

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David.Poole (6/2/2016)

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There's a presentation that demonstrates that you may as well not bother with an IT degree because the pace of change is so fast that by...