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  • RE: Over-Engineering

    Who uses 100% of an application?? If the 20% that doesnt work is the 20% that I dont use then I personally have a 100% working application. If the 1%...

  • RE: The Hidden Patterns in Data

    Like the link 🙂

    Number of times a colleague will says looks at these numbers and you can see the trend. As soon as the numbers have been turned into...

  • RE: Naming Confusion

    For business production and Infrastructure production then a role based name with an incrementing ID does. Who cares if there are gaps in the numbers or a reinstall.

    For test/development/proof of...

  • RE: Documenting with Tests

    The only issue I have documentation is that a piece of paper doesn't know what the code does. I have run into documentation, schedules, in-line comments all saying the opposite...

  • RE: Byte Me: The Nectar of Life

    That coffee would only last 5 minutes 🙂

  • RE: Opening Up Data

    @gary: Thats the whole of IT and why the polygot approach seems to be popular with some. Its can be the mindset of I can juggle more balls...

  • RE: Not Only a Meeting of Minds, but of Open Minds.

    But, running around saying "cool I know how to spell the new toy, that makes me the expert because no else does!!!!" can impress the Pointy-Haired-Boss (especially if the tool...

  • RE: Idempotent

    Bradley Deem (5/6/2015)


    ... However, even that's not the best defense against a script run twice...

    The whole point is that the script can be run once, twice or a thousand...

  • RE: Idempotent

    Been writing my release scripts like this for years. Like you I didnt know there was a specific term for it.

    As one co-worker said: "write it like this [ed: idemptent]...

  • RE: Code Reviews

    Code review. I wish. Some of the developers want & need code reviews, but the management doesn't seem inclined because we are too busy fire-fighting amongst other the untenable deadlines....

  • RE: Security Through Chaos

    They were lucky.

    Only means that when the "perfect storm" does occur then no one person is responsible. It is great for the herd like mentality but is short sighted....

  • RE: Monitoring After Deployment

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/20/2015)


    Yet Another DBA (4/17/2015)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/16/2015)


    ... I've been most wary, and worried, when the changes were out of my control, and I...

  • RE: Embrace Stored Procedures

    Jeff Moden (4/18/2015)


    I read Rob's article when it first came out. What a refreshing change it was from the dogma that I've been reading about for the previous several...

  • RE: Monitoring After Deployment

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/16/2015)


    ... I've been most wary, and worried, when the changes were out of my control, and I had no chance to review things......

    Have you ever...

  • RE: QA for Data

    It Depends...

    Most companies I have worked with allow "trusted" people to change it on an adhoc basis. Even when the "trusted" people have a dangerously simplistic knowledge of sql! The...

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