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  • Reply To: Do You Want a Microsoft Solution?

    Isn't this what the Microsoft partnerships are for?  Isn't Redgate a Microsoft partner?

    If I'm using a product for which there are 3rd party services and products I'm looking for some...

  • Reply To: Separate Reads

    When I was  developing web sites using a CMS we had the CMS Authoring suite pointing at one DB and the web site consuming a subscribing DB, effectively separating reads...

  • Reply To: Time to Change Your Team

    I've seen some business fashions come and go.

    When I started my career it was coming to the end of one where managers who wanted to progress had to move through...

  • Reply To: Time to Change Your Team

    The biggest structural change I went through was when the organisation moved from teams arranged for their technical responsibilities to teams aligned to a product.  It was a squads/tribes/chapter/guilds thing.

    Up...

  • Reply To: Technology Fears

    I had a bad experience with an app for theatre tickets.  It required mobile data even to display tickets I had already bought and the theatre was in a bad...

  • Reply To: Databases for Executives

    Chris, Aquafold DataStudio is a DB IDE that has a poor man's equivalent of SQL Prompt where the snippets are stored as "abbreviations".

    I don't know what is available in other...

  • Reply To: I Need a CS Degree. I Don't Need a CS Degree

    I've been looking at the algorithms used by search engines.  I can just about understand them but there is no way I could come up with them.  The level of...

  • Reply To: The Cloud Security Problem

    AWS caught the flak for customers misconfiguring S3 buckets and misunderstanding bucket ACLs.  AWS's approach was to deprecate the ACL approach in favour of more easily understood policy document approach...

  • Reply To: Databases for Executives

    Even between RDBMS there are differences that can have a profound impact on the availability, performance, security and data quality.

    There are certain fundamental principles that apply to managing databases, RDBMS...

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  • Reply To: When Companies Fail

    This cures me of my long-standing whinge that we still don't have flying cars.

  • Reply To: When Companies Fail

    When I buy a product I expect it to last for as long as I look after it and as long as wear and tear allows.  I think that we've...

  • Reply To: Tech Debt Perils

    In the position I am in now, within reason, I can pay down tech debt.  One of the 1st tasks I was given when I joined my current company was...

  • Reply To: Are We Dinosaurs?

    The longevity of RDBMS speaks volumes for the quality of thought that went into its underlying principles.  The technology came later.

    I'm not yet at the age where I feel sanguine...

  • Reply To: The Modern Algorithm of Chance

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    In terms of different types of office spaces, it might be the same thing. Usually higher performers get more closed offices, or quieter ones. How we manage that with...

  • Reply To: The Modern Algorithm of Chance

    I worked on a product recommendation algorithm.  For the most part if was a personalised sort order for results from a customer search.  We recognised the danger of a self-fulfilling...

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