Knut Boehnert (12/21/2015)

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One statement I read is how I code:

So how someone codes tells a lot how they see interaction with other humans.

Code is documentation...

In this case, the word parse was more...

eeaglehouse (12/21/2015)

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A side-effect of comments is that it should make the purpose of the code obvious. It helps locate bugs when the intent doesn't match the implementation. Such as your...

Gary Varga (11/24/2014)

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Jeff Moden (11/24/2014)

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Gary Varga (11/24/2014)

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alicesql (11/24/2014)

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...Also, there is a triumvirate of price, quality and speed. You can generally get 2 of these, but not all three. In other...

Gary Varga (11/24/2014)

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I have to totally disagree with the following from the article:

Database development has a subtle difference from application-development. It is not as easy to fake your completion dates,...

Jeff Moden (11/22/2014)

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It seemed to me to be yet another article chastising the people who are actually concerned with what the customer actually received for the sake of meeting...

I am sorry you feel this way....

Wow. I couldn't make up a story so excellent as that one.

Louis

Us too. Until very recently many of our system were on 2005 and most others on 2008R2. I do a lot of testing concepts on my personal laptop to be...

BWFC (5/12/2014)

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Jeff Moden (5/12/2014)

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I've started a real pushback on all of this. It's amazing how many of the candidates (something like 22 out of 24) can't answer the first...

Jim Youmans-439383 (5/12/2014)

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I totally agree! And now I see more and more developers embracing ORMs like Entity Framework so that they "don't have to mess with all that database...

Jeff Moden (5/12/2014)

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I've started a real pushback on all of this. It's amazing how many of the candidates (something like 22 out of 24) can't answer the first question,...

jay-h (3/3/2014)

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In a job that is, for the most part, worthy-but-dull, rather than the stuff of dreams

Most good jobs are like that. Glamor is transient, but the enjoyment of doing...

That must be nice....

@TravisDBA

>>I'm not sold yet on whether that is a "great trait", as you tend to infer. I still look for hard working DBA's in interviews, not intellectual+lazy ones<<

I...