What a fascinating idea, Kendra! I've never heard of reteaming. Thank you for the link to Reedgate's use of self-selecting reteaming, I'm going to read it with interest!!

Oh, Grant, I am so envious of your career!! My career has practically been the opposite. In the 90's I worked for an organization that did soil and biological testing....

Hi Mike (MVDBA), today I got an email from GitHub tech support, which looks like its going to solve my problem. WooHoo! Looks like I can set an email address...

Good question, Grant. I've seen some well known companies do very rigorous testing and interviewing of the candidates. I'd get the feeling that they really had a good idea as...

Excellent editorial and blog post. I'm one who loves to continually learn. I attend .NET user group meetings (although they may be stopping soon, unfortunately), SQL Saturdays (when I can),...

All good points. Loved 2001. 2010 was good, too, but not as good.

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Congratulations on the CS degree, @tlx91!

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Oh boy, that's a big one, Steve. I could list several things I'd like to see at work to make it more enjoyable and less difficult, but I'll keep this...

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I remember writing a SSRS report which had calculations in it. I was guilty of not testing it properly. I released it to production and almost immediately had management on...

I've made the mistake of implementing a spec wrong. Simply put, I misinterpreted it. If there's some confusion on what a spec says, then I've asked for clarification, more than...

This is a very interesting article. As far as I know, none of our SQL objects are in source control. Well, except for what we, the developers, write in order...

Good points, Steve. So many thoughts. I have a 4 year degree from a university in Arizona. Without that, I would never have gotten to where I am today. But...

I agree with you. I'm working on a team rewriting legacy apps into newer technologies. However one thing we're instructed to do is bring everything back. Under curtain circumstances that...

I'm one of those who is older and this is a concern of mine. I've witnessed this close hand. My father was also in IT. His last position, in the...

I'm glad you mentioned either not using GitHub/Bitbucket/etc., or using private repos on this services for companies authored software.