A senior developer who recently left our company expressed the opinion to me that the DBAs should be in charge of the Data Access Layer.

He was very definite that we...

The horrifying thought is that Microsoft will start to include the coffee-factor into their licensing calculations. Enterprise Edition users are allowed unlimited cups of coffee and a better quality brew...

I had never thought so much that hardware was expensive, rather more that software licences and people were expensive. Microsoft play an expensive game.

In my experience, coding well is not...

I have two points, one is the argument of new versus old: if a technology works fine, what criteria must the new technology have in order for it to supercede...

A part of the problem is perception — in some companies and with some people, your status is measured by the number of meetings you have. One is obviously (ahem)...

I have a 45-minutes commute by bicycle from a town through the countryside into the industrial outer reaches of a small city.

I think about many things.

Sometimes I dream and think...

I like data in the same way that I like snow. It's nice that it's there but it's what one does with it that's fun (which is your point mostly).

What...

I wonder how attractive a 10x programmer (or DBA in this case) would be to a manager. Sure, it's great to have a person that does the work of 10....

This reminds me of the model for programmers in Fred Brooks' 'The Mythical Man Month'.

He is of the opinion that programmers should be trained and treated as consultant surgeons. There...

It seems to me as if the modern development method is the problem.

Get your user-stories implemented as soon as possible.

The database is «persistence layer». It might as well as be...

Have you ever tried to read the SQL generated by a 6-join LINQ statement? It took me 30 minutes just to tease it apart.

Here is (if I remember correctly) a...

ORMs and LINQ are theft.

The developers steal DBAs' time so that they may have an easier ride. They meet their deadlines more easily while making the DBA's job harder.

As someone...

I'm a big fan of SQL Prompt too.

I only have two complaints about it:

a. I wish that I could create DB-specific or server-specific snippets and

b. I wish that...

I'm fighting an uphill battle to get old data archived.

Archived data doesn't need to be backed up every day and it can be put somewhere relatively slow (not on our...

Ever since the Snowden revelations, I have not been well disposed towards the Cloud.

However, now that I am thinking about getting a new computer at home, I am considering a...