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  • RE: Do You Have Scary Code?

    Saw quite a bit of scary code in the late '90's and early 2000's. Code that was written by people who jumped on the tech bandwagon. One developer...

  • RE: Crossing Azure Borders

    xsevensinzx (11/6/2015)


    I wish I could try it more, but AWS has such a strong offering and flexibility for my distributed processing needs.

    That and the fact I can spin up a...

  • RE: Leave Developers Alone

    True not just for developers, but really anyone who creates. I'd suspect that interrupting a writer would have the same effect. Same for an artist, architect, etc. I'd...

  • RE: From Great Idea to End Result

    People respond to how they are treated and rewarded. I'd guess that if an IT group responded quickly, but it did not go perfectly, then they would be rewarded...

  • RE: The Poor Soul

    Peter Trast (5/11/2011)... but corporations have proven to us over and over again that most of them do not deserve our loyalty.

    Very true. And unless your boss owns the company,...

  • RE: Bad Management

    In the past I did quite a bit of contract work. It is not unreasonable to say that some (but not all) companies that need contract IT are often the...

  • RE: Where should middle tier business logic be stored?

    RonKyle (10/16/2015)


    While the final answer may depend on the skills that are available in-house. Also, if the application will never be large, it probably doesn't matter. But if you...

  • RE: The Poor Soul

    Steve has a very good point: "Ultimately you are responsible for the job. "

    Tell your boss you will do the best you can, but also have a paper trail...

  • RE: The Counter Offer - Part 2

    al-868576 (10/8/2015)


    the issue I have with the counter offer is that with a good boss / manager, the options available too you in the company should have been discussed before...

  • RE: Querying Yesterday

    xsevensinzx (10/6/2015)


    Interesting stuff.

    I have to ask though, why not just manually make this yourself with 2 tables and some triggers? All it's doing is tracking the history of the table...

  • RE: Have a Think

    RonKyle (10/1/2015)


    I have found that walking While thinking allows me to gain insight into issues

    Me, too.

    I have always tried to take a walk at least once a day. Sometimes...

  • RE: No Time for Testing

    xsevensinzx (9/28/2015)


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    xsevensinzx (9/28/2015)


    What makes it 10x worse is that while you can verify everything is good with your end result, someone can take that end result (i.e.: data) and...

  • RE: No Time for Testing

    Agree with Jeff Moden. Especially about DBA's and others that just don't really know what they are doing. It is really kind of scary.

  • RE: Data Sprawl

    Hadoop will be easier once SQL Server 2016 is released. They have included in the CTP the PolyBase technology that allows SQL Server to directly query a connected Hadoop...

  • RE: The Counter Offer - Part 2

    A while ago I recall a Dilbert carton about someone who felt guilty about looking for a new job. A think it was Dogbert that stated: "Why, they don't...

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