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...

A better question to ask is, when is it better to use a NoSQL-DB than an RDBMS?

Which tasks do they handle reliably well as well as performing better than an...

What's the point of having DBAs if people believe that ORM tools will do it all?

Veeam does backup and point-in-time restores.

It seems to me that one side of Microsoft is...

For anyone who likes this sort of deviousness, then the English comedy series 'Yes Minister!' and 'Yes, Prime Minister' are well worth watching.

There may even be episodes up on YouTube.

Nespresso here does accept recycle capsules for recycling.

Otherwise I just throw them into the metal/aluminium recycling bin.

The coffee-grounds do make great compost and are wasted when I do this though.

2 ideas on coffee:

My mother (now in her late sixties) is old-school. She makes a pot of coffee every morning with a filter into a thermos flask and brings...

I get emails about jobs with where they want people who just don't exist. Who would want them if they did exist? Anyone who is an expert at the whole...