I feel like I've been along for the ride for a reasonable amount of that journey.

I've always stayed for the long term in roles I've had.

First job out of uni...

Funny you should say "repetitive things", Steve.

Back when I lived in Melbourne and worked in the CBD I used to cycle to work, approx. 30 min each way.

I found that...

I find when I take a break from something that is proving difficult, I can come back to it with fresh eyes & fresh ideas.

I never really understood why until...

I feel like the use of prod data for testing is more accepted in a "look the other way" fashion that we want to admit. Long answer follows 🙂

The security...

iposner (9/27/2011)

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A common problem among developers is an unwillingness to master the entire software stack. If you want great software, you must develop expertise in all layers including DB and...

jh-638585 (9/27/2011)

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Loved the article and, even more so, the fact that your brainwave has provoked such excellent feedback (haven't read it all yet mind).

I'm on the programmer-side and, therefore, no...

Whilst it is true sequential guids solve many of the main issues associated with databases partitioned across multiple servers or failover situations and provide random, hard to guess values, based...

This is actually very close to the following by Tatham Oddie: http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2011/07/14/released-snowmaker-a-unique-id-generator-for-azure-or-any-other-cloud-hosting-environment/

or perhaps even more close to the Twitter Unique ID generator he references: https://github.com/twitter/snowflake

If anyone was going to implement...

Ok, you've probably checked this, but going by my twin mantras of "there are no stupid questions etc" and "check the obvious first"....

Could it be that the full text index...

Dave,

Nice one.  I just had this very problem, and your solution worked first go!

Thanks!  And thanks to everyone else that assisted in finding the problem!

Stuart R

 

There are ways around this, but they all involve some coding if you would like to keep the full functionality.  This will be a little short on detail, as I...