I don't see a lot of movement among the rank and file, where I work. There does seem to be a fair amount of changing among middle management. Redgate's practice...

The story about the hacking of a water treatment facility in Florida reminded me of an incident I witnessed about 2o years ago, at a different state job. In this...

Thanks, Chris,

Personally, just for the sake of keeping things going, I'd like to see more people run virtual events this year. I think you need less people to run...

Yes, we've had a noticeable increase in workload. I work for my state's health department, so we've been and continue to be very involved in the fight against the Coronavirus....

Thanks, Steve.

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.