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Typically the construction industry is much better at estimates. Its when the client turns around and doesn't want the ground surveys done correctly that predictably everything goes wrong. Or...

The child's toy of different shaped pegs needing to be placed through different shaped holes seems...

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In the RDBMS camp I can understand the attraction of being able to accept and process JSON and absorb other NOSQL type functionality but isn’t this precisely the one-size-fits-all approach...

xsevensinzx (8/12/2015)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (8/11/2015)

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I agree you need to know something, but what is that bar? Can I analyze college spending? I think I can, though there are...

IceDread (7/24/2015)

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I think we will see limited AI's if we live long enough. We will never allow the existence of a fully free AI if such a thing one day...

I think that many companies are trying to create AI by accident. Applications (including databases) have become more complex and many have been evolving by years of tweaking and manipulation....

And how many of us have been asked to produce a report that barely fits onto A3 landscape with a font size of 6pt? Or tune a 500 page...

Evil Kraig F (6/13/2011)

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Revenant (6/13/2011)

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Good point, Steve. All too often the prospective employer already knows who will get the job but they have to go through the hoops and...

Elliott Whitlow (6/8/2011)

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Revenant (6/8/2011)

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Elliott, I guess you are right, in most cases and in this litigious society. However, so far I always got the answers I asked for --...

icastellanos (6/30/2015)

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Absolutely. I was just making that point yesterday that even with source...

Jeff Moden (6/24/2015)

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....None of them,...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/23/2015)

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emmchild (6/23/2015)

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Steve it would be awesome to have RedGate tools for Postgresql. It would be awesome to have a Postgresql Server Central site. ...

It is not lawful to disclose individual salaries in the EU as the Data Protection Directive name salary as personal information. You can say what the group average...

TravisDBA (1/28/2011)

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I think saying to your boss "we can source and fit some more memory for £50, which MIGHT resolve the issue, might not help at all but certainly...