I tend to agree with you. The more code there is, broken or not, the more people are fearful of disturbing things. This extra code is technical debt, and...

People like Brent who say "don't clean up old code" apparently don't have much experience with 40-50 year old codebases that are still mission critical for more than 18 million...

I think I should rephrase this: it took me a full day to finally get my data on disk, on the specific location I wanted, linked to my application in...

Very nice article on Docker, I've been playing around with that for the last few months as well. But I notice you don't describe how to specify the mapping of...

I'm absolutely not dissing CS degrees in any way... but mostly pointing out that a proven record of success in a field weighs much more heavily, at least in...

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I know a lot of folks think that a CS education isn't necessary because they didn't have one and they don't miss it, and because they see clueless CS majors...

Cool! A debate about the dialectics of software 🙂 This is actually a throwback to a rather old philosophical question, subject of much debate between people such as Hegel and...

A very nice and well-written article. The one thing that is, to me, the difference in creating a DTQP promotion process for software and one for databases, is the fact...

The problem starts with the approach of thinking about tables, foreign keys and other technical details - it's too low level. Think about the business use case for those notes....

Hi,

You have a problem because you are not choosing the correct method. You are still normalizing in Kimball, which is a fully denormalized cache.

Just add all the data in SalesOrder...

I think they were lucky the database got wiped out by MEOW. On the other hand, it's not clear if that was done after someone downloaded it. if UFO VPN...

"I have talked to some people that state "our best practices is to never use..." because they tried it when it was first introduced in SQL Server 2005 and it...

I've used schema's since around 1999, when I started using Oracle. The fact that SQL Server didn't use them has always been strange to me and I was pretty happy...

I'm not so sure about whether I work in the gig economy, but I've been a freelancer since mid 2008 (yeah, great timing, but I was fed up after a...

I'm not so sure about whether I work in the gig economy, but I've been a freelancer since mid 2008 (yeah, great timing, but I was fed up after a...