I go to the dentist a couple of times a year.  If I'm lucky, he doesn't find anything dire and I get a good cleaning out of it.  It's not...

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Agree with skeleton567 here.  I wouldn't do it as an investment strategy.  I *might* look at it more like mentorship.  I put something in, maybe I get something back, but...

Hi Sebastian.  Interesting history and very compelling.

I was convinced before, though.

Hi, Sebastian.  I never heard this bit of history before.  Thank you for it; it's great.  It explains the benefit in a definitely real-world way.

Larry

Reasons against adding new DB platforms (you mentioned many of these):

* More skillsets to support

* More systems to patch, upgrade, generally keep running

* Chasing the current fad.  The experts love it...

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by  larry.blake.

Interesting post, Steve.

I agree that modern environments with rich GUIs take away the need to learn "what's really happening".  Sometimes that's fine.  When I'm driving, I don't want to know...

Often a project has multiple customers and multiple perspectives.  A developer trying to satisfy an external customer, might prioritize that party over an internal customers like a DBA.  Time is...

In my office, the team that uses ORMs is not the same team that does database work.  (And they use Java btw.)  Similarly the database team is not the reporting...

Steve Collins, I don't see how we can avoid using ORMs and report writers.  They boost productivity.  IQP may also make it easier for "real" developers to get away with...

IQP is important because there are more processes reading the database, not all of them written by developers.  Some are generated by reporting tools or ORMs.  This sort of code...

Our office started using Slack a couple of years ago.  There was little instruction, no best practices.  People added me to channels and I had no idea why.  I didn't...

Cheers!

Very kind of you to say. Could you share it with my...

(I'm pretty sure this is the deepest I've ever been in the nested quotes.)

Steve, I appreciate you not ending a sentence proposition with.

Seriously though, we wouldn't have so many great events if it weren't for the vendors.  I've been to a number of...

What I'd really like to see are companies that stop punishing people for not taking time off.  I've had more vacation just vanish because I had more on the...