Management said, "Why's it going to take so long? It's just a web page." Management thought it was basically like writing a Word document. You pump it out in...

Well if not reading the manual is reason to remove people's ability to code, then there are a LOT of developers to fire out there.  As with many other...

I have a suggestion for you Jeff. Your company may bill by the quarter hour, but that doesn't mean that you have to enter your time that way. Tell your...

Got it Jeff. Of course date math is not a sin. I put it in the category of, when you get a really hard to troubleshoot bug, and you finally...

Thanks for the substantive reply, Jeff. I already handled your objections by saying that you were the only developer I knew who knew enough about the subject to reliably do...

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by  GeorgeCopeland.

I disagree Jeff, date math is a bad idea for any reason. When I have anything to say about it, it is not allowed. Maybe you know what you are...

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by  GeorgeCopeland.

Even though you can do math on datetimes, don't do that. A datetime is not numeric, it is a data structure. Use the proper function for the type.

Raise the technical bar--I have yet to see a dev team where doing this did not work. Developers are intelligent and talented. Trust them to come up with it. I...

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by  GeorgeCopeland.

Hi Phil, that reply was only patronizing in your own mind. I advise you not to take things so personally. Have a great day!

What Jeff said again. For example, if you have a bunch of ad hoc users that are affecting production, the solution is to probably build them a data warehouse. Doing...

What Jeff said. It is worth it to tune tempdb and then make everyone use it correctly. The management strategy that you are suggesting just sounds like pushing the real...

For every job I get, I do my level best to eliminate it. I combine processes, improve efficiencies, eliminate redundancies, increase automation. Every time I do this, instead of getting...