If you are going to have trustworthy source control you should only deploy from source control. I can't overstate how important that is. Backfills never get kept up...

There will always be a need for people who are deep subject matter experts in critical systems, whether database, network, etc. That said. We need to spend less...

We handle this using a "build the tunnel from both ends" approach.

Ideally anything that gets done gets pushed through our continuous deployment system, and we can push those through in...

Of course if you find something, they put you on the nofly list...

http://fortune.com/2015/05/14/united-airlines-hacking-plane/

Reporting in NoSQL databases is generally going to be through services or interfaces developed by the same teams who did the data model. That works great (performance questions aside)...

Warning: Null value is eliminated by an aggregate or other SET operation.

I currently support Mongo, SQL Server, MySQL, and increasingly PostGres, which offers an interesting hybrid document db datastore on top of a relational db.

The foreign key discussion is...

We have thousands of installed express editions on customer sites. I think it's great for that as long as you can live without HA (beyond backups). Obviously you...

I got it wrong because I read the two year sliding window as a requirement, and picked the new index as the less wrong answer. But still a really...

Grant Fritchey (10/28/2014)

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cdesmarais 49673 (10/27/2014)

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It's not magic. It's also not a free lunch. There are tradeoffs even beyond the extra up front work of TDD and automation. ...

It's not magic. It's also not a free lunch. There are tradeoffs even beyond the extra up front work of TDD and automation. CI is poor at...

I think this comes up more often than any other issue in code reviews. "Just wrapping it in a transaction doesn't actually do anything. You need to check...

There are important distinctions, but this is a SQL server board and SQL server implements the logical construct of the primary key by creating a special case index.

Data state is something that is tough to automate, which I suppose is job security. There is also something of a mismatch still between windows automation, which is generally...

I think it's too easy to just poo poo the claim. The author of that article was talking about a specific development approach using a dev-ops, service oriented architecture...