RE: SQL Server Telemetry – SQLServerCentral

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April 18, 2017 at 6:58 am

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David.Poole - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 2:39 AM
All these systems are put together with the best and honourable intentions. The problem comes when they are exposed to people with the worse and malign intentions.
Data scientists can and do achieve incredible things with data that could benefit us all but they are also like the fat kid entrusted with the keys to the sweet shop.
There's lots of "I could do this" but very little "Should I do this"

I'm pretty sure that because of the very people you speak of, there's little honorable to be had even at conception of a project. Even the release cycle for most software is built on greed. "We need to compete. Push something... anything.... out so we can say we have it and if anyone complains, then we'll fix it.". I'm convinced that continuous releases are necessary only because of that particular business model. They have to do continuous releases to continually fix errors caused by the rush.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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