100%. Something as simple as naming whatever enitities correctly - and then maintaining that naming scheme ruthlessly when things are refactored - can make the difference between being easily navigable...

What you tend to find with this new technology is that the real problems come from something you haven't foreseen. So maybe that's not the worst thing We'll see!

I have occasionally wondered if the management of our company is just using AI to interact with us workers. I seem to get the same surprise when I express some...

Does anyone else find that by working out how to articulate the problem in a way that a junior data engineer can understand it, the solution appears naturally out...

It's quite a minor SQL WTF in my opinion - probably doesn't significantly affect performance, just a bit slow and harder to plan. Security wise it would depend on whether...

Containers are great for many situations. They do add many complications and require a certain level of infrastructure to get anywhere at all in terms of serving applications. Also, get...

I can safely say my team's biggest challenges are from internal politics.

a) Trying to poach resource or persuade VPs etc our successful, profitable team that we can work with less...

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Primary keys? What sort of nonsense is that? Next you'll be telling us to put different things in different tables

Yes, it's definitely an area of concern. However hard we have tried to estimate costs it's really hard to do overall, and you end up having to do some hand...

Thanks Phil, perfect, I knew there was something but couldn't remember the name, not having used it before

Is horse stake work comprised of work that requires consumption of a large horse steak?

I just went for the largest! I guess there's a SSC discount that wasn't discussed?

A very good new word which I do like. I've certainly wondered about that topic.

The only problem is that in my imagination it sounds a bit like it might be...

If I were you Steve I'd be looking at the Inca Trail for next year - if your knees are still up to it

Kind of back to normal, but a bit worse than before.

I do really feel the tight knit nature of our team has been shattered to some extent, not in my...