For one company I gave up working from home trying to get a project completed in time, as there were more interruptions than in the office. They expected...

All too often I have found that UK management are the ones with the inability of communicating. I much prefer to deal with German, Dutch, and Scandinavian managers as...

SQLNightOwl (7/25/2011)

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They generally range from 1/3 - 1/2 longer for the context switching. I have one person (a mother of twins) that can context...

ITIL works, chaos doesn't.

If you want to alienate either clients or business users ignore ITIL and just do releases any old how and never have a post-mortem when events reoccur.

Too...

Good luck with improving security.

Smaller ISV or IT departments have little or no idea about security and tend to have the attitude that "we are too small to be of...

I know one company that was still "supporting" their application running against SQL2005 until it was kindly pointed out that Microsoft had stopped supporting any & all issue with it....

Eric M Russell (10/5/2015)

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From what I've seen, few data breaches are the result of exploiting holes in the database engine itself. The major RDMS are solid in terms of security;...

To me the "code smell" I really don't agree with is the names ( 65 -> 69) . I will use square brackets around a name with spaces and...

Yep very useful, but its the style that mangers often complain about.

On different occasions and companies, I have had managers saying that I wasn't working and staring into space...

I do find watching slow motion train crashes a bit sad at the moment. Currently watching yet another project that is ORM based. I asked how they were going...

crmitchell (9/21/2015)

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It would be somewhat clearer in the UK

The Data Protection Act requires any organisation holding personal data to register. That registration specifies what data they may hold, who may...

call.copse (9/21/2015)

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re: MySQL I'm going to say the licence cost issue is a big one these days, and seems to be more onerous than it has been. I've not had...

With no documentation and too many versions of the application there is no refactoring.

The manager is of the mindset that because the schema is so difficult to modify or...

ERD are very useful if you have a database with constraints. But my current employer deems any form of documentation (including specs from the clients) as a waste of time.

I...

Just wondering if we rebrand rdbms and Foreign keys whether it will become the latest greatest toy that developers must now use 😉