Thank you, Steve, for this article. This is a good admonition for me. I don't think I am particularly good at convincing others that a certain practice should be followed,...

I'm a developer, so yeah, I am attracted to the new and shiny.  What frustrates me at work isn't so much that they don't want to do cutting edge technology....

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That is something that is bothering me ALOT.

I am alone responsible for SSIS, SSAS and query development.

We have more than 500 tables and 7 different Cubes.

I can not even...

Well, I'm in good company. 🙂

Hi @JRuss, I'm responding from my home account. The earlier one was from my work account.

The "stay in your own lane" mentality is an unwritten rule. It's a sense I...

Its evening, I have more time to respond to this.

Ben, I believe there's a lot to what you said. It is valuable to allow people to fail. I've only done...

Good article, Ben. I appreciate it but am not entirely sure I agree. Not on good grounds, just more because I've never worked anywhere that allowed for experimentation....

Good article, Ben. You touch upon a problem I've encountered over the last 4 years at work. I'm on a team that's slowly working on replacing incredibly old Excel and...

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Just a note, in the Pro Git book there's a side note on using git checkout -- <file> that says:

It’s important to understand that git checkout -- <file> is a...

Dang, that article by Martin Fowler is a novella. Interesting reading, though.

I dread returning to the office. It offers me nothing at all. From the office I must put up with interruptions, distractions, and annoyances. I'm one of the few in...

One of the topics you brought up, Steve, is companies moving to the cloud in 2020 and that you expect that to continue into 2021. I'd like to ask everyone...

One of your best editorials of 2020, Steve. This is exactly what I want to do while I'm taking time off. I'd been challenged to do from other groups and...

Good article, Steve. Where I work now and in my previous employer, there's no easily identifiable career path. (I now work for a large state department. Previously I worked for...

Like everyone here has said and likely more will say later, this year has been disruptive to all of us. I'd hoped to have advanced my career this year, but...