My career ambition for 2009 is just do everything I can think of to hang on to one .... 🙂

See here.

Not so good, really. The main reason for closing the office is that the global organization announced a restructuring in early August (just...

Our office will be closed from today until 5th January so I probably wont' be partaking of any more discussions this year, so...

I, too, would like to thank Steve and...

I didn't intend to say that you can't get a good estimate of the size of the data/transactions/etc for any projects. Just that, all too often, the estimates will be...

Phil Factor (12/18/2008)

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When I worked as a technical architect, I would never dream of letting a project go into development unless we had carefully specified the loading (e.g. transactions per...

Following the earlier discussion, I too went for (C) since there is no mention of when any log backups were done, so you don't know if there are any or...

Cade Roux (12/16/2008)

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Steve Jones - Editor (12/16/2008)

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I need to look at Google mail. I've heard it searches well, and it should. Right now my account is an archive where I...

Hi Steve

I agree that in a 'proper' application, you'd need various checks and error handling. And when the developer, after using all the optimizing tools, really can't get any more...

One use of tags I've encountered which has an interesting side-effect is Google mail.

Google allows messages to have "labels" (aka "tags") rather than setting up a folder-based system. Any message...

sausage.dog (12/15/2008)

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Derek Dongray (12/15/2008)

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This sounded like FUD so I thought I'd try it out. C# console app, 5k executable. And with code that's orders of magnitude easier to maintain. There's...

Phil Factor (12/15/2008)

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This is always going to be subjective, but there certainly seems to be a perception that applications just don't seem to be developed any faster for all the...

One company I worked for solved the problem of accessing old financial data by simply keeping the old system! 😀

It was in the computer room, powered down, and only switched...

The problem with this QOD is that the answer depends on what you assume is the implied information.

Either:

Statement: If I create a database in full recovery mode in SQL Server...

On days I've worked from home my productivity goes way up.

Unfortunately, the company I currently work for, although great in many respects, takes the view that working from home is...

Possibly true, but as an...