If data residency matters, then do we need to start thinking about where our data is stored?  If data is treated like physical property, are we going to start having...

I'd say software developers produce a product, and DBAs are producing a service.  A software developer is similar to a mechanical engineer, while IT is like a mechanic.  Everybody needs...

Is it not true that there are no non-deterministic functions. Simply those that fully specify their inputs and those that don't?

Or put another way, the definition of non-determinism is that...

The deployment of this QoTD should have been automated so what worked in test would have worked in production 🙂

Great point lshanahan. The flip side of "with great power comes great responsibility" is "with no power comes no responsibility". The right balance depends on the people involved.

It's not chaos it's diversity. When you look at an abandoned field and its overgrown you might see chaos but there's order there, it's just not centralized. Then...

The major problem with scripts is you are violating DRY (don't repeat yourself - aka normalization). The problem with the manual compare option is it is manual, and therefore...