I like quirky update, though the need for it has passed. In terms of performance it occasionally wins hands down, but it is just one of a whole palate of...

@ronkyle,
In the examples I gave, the detractors weren't just hidebound, but were foolish. Airy, for example, was convinced that Babbage's calculations of the logarithmic tables were unnecessary...

@jeff
OK. I should have said 'everyone except perhaps Jeff.' 
For everyday work, I think String_Split() is a godsend because it is so easy to use, I agree...

I think that the track record of changes to T-SQL shows that the rate of change is less radical than that. Mind you, there is a Graph Database going into...

I've sent an email  reply to Fabrizio about the code. Yes, love to have the code corrected! I wish I had the time....

I suspect that this is a typo, It is...

At the retail bank I worked for, we had a special team called the 'limit test team' whose job was just to set up a system before it was deployed...

I've not written up on the subject, probably because it is a bit obscure. The caching requirements metadata are more simple. This tells the application how long it can retain...

The problems for litigation so far in EU countries has been the looseness of the privacy laws. This is the real reason for the GDPR. Once these are 'given teeth',...

Agreed. Definitely.

Well the cost of compliance is a difficult one to calculate because it is most often the cost of doing what you should have been doing anyway, but have put...

Yes, I must admit that Chris Date was one of the thoughts in my mind when I wrote this. I'd just been rereading his textbook on SQL. I must ...

Yeah. Painful, these discussions. Particularly after a good lunch. A lot of people think that anything bigger than an excel spreadsheet must be a database. I once made people correctly...

I've been lucky in having a home office which, when I'm working from home, I go into to work, and leave when I finish for the day. I keep...

TNT Screen capture. It is really useful for articles like this.