Agreed. The case/jury analogy was just to promote discussion in a situation where the contract is silent on certain issues (all contracts are silent on...

Are you psychic? Actually there was one warranty. That was that they'd bill us come rain...

You're right Ron, and thanks for tackling it. You seem to be leaning towards the view that we should have explicitly...

Oh Jeff,

I can't begin to tell you how hard you've made me laugh. It's like you work here. Keep up the good work. It has cheered me up no end.

They mostly came to light after the contract had been signed. The undertakings they gave prior to that were all...

Thanks Martin. For the specific question "Is it a reasonable implicit expectation that a data warehouse have a strategy for preserving the integrity of query results during a refresh?" What's...

"The customer is always right." is a great principle but not an absolute. Especially when the customer comes to you with a problem and then proceeds to tell you what...

I'm a bit late to the party, but what a party it is. We manage about 30 systems from external vendors. Some are better than others but all have failings,...

Every column nullable. No constraints. Not even a primary key. No indexes. I think someone is pulling your leg. What possible reliable use could it be? I'm tempted to think...

I'm surprised nobody has discussed normalization... or did I miss something? It would be good if @smtzac could script the CREATE TABLE and tell us a bit about it...

@GoofyGuy

Hahahahaha. Maybe there's a reason he only allows us to envisage him through some obscure sepia photo.

Yep. Me and many many others.

He speaks the truth. Which is both sad and funny. As someone who cut their teeth on Access,...

Yep. The group_concat has to be the most obvious oversight since Bill Gates said 640K is all the RAM anyone will ever need. A Median() over(partition_by) and linear regression trendline...

True, but the workarounds for the abovementioned omissions...