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  • RE: Access Disdain

    And lastly to the people who hate Access because they think it somehow "less" than other programming tools. Yes it is less and that is exactly the point. That is...

  • RE: Access Disdain

    scottgem (7/21/2014)


    GoofyGuy (7/17/2014)

    The problem I have with Access isn't Access itself, but the way in which non-IT types use it building their own data stores and 'apps': without any knowledge...

  • RE: Access Disdain

    A very balanced, thoughtful post, Armen, thank you.

  • RE: Access Disdain

    ... there are few companies where there are enough IT developers to handle all the business needs. The best option then is to provide tools to the users for them...

  • RE: Access Disdain

    ... The pain of Access comes when the database gets too big, too slow, or the app just gets too unwieldy. Then we as DBA’s and developers get called in...

  • RE: Never give up

    I don't know about you, but nobody ever seems to want to give me time.

    It's 12:23pm PDT.

    Don't say you didn't ask.

  • RE: Is It Time To Clear Out Those Quirky Functions?

    What else would you add by way of built-in string operators and functions?

    A 'prettify' function would be nice, which would capitalise the first letter of each word in the...

  • RE: Never give up

    Approach all problems with the belief they can be solved.

    And if you can't, it's time to find a different profession.

    We make our living solving mysteries.

  • RE: All the People Smarter than Me - Editorial

    The ones that really shock me are the people who attempt to derail others who are trying to improve themselves, alleviate team issues as well as improve efficiency and responsiveness...

  • RE: All the People Smarter than Me - Editorial

    I guess I just consider myself lucky to have had a great boss that pushed training into our laps. He always said you should be spending at least a couple...

  • RE: The Last Line of Defense

    Michael Valentine Jones (6/17/2014)


    Even if you are actually indispensable, that does not mean that the people making decisions know it or care if you are.

    'The graveyards are full of indispensable...

  • RE: The Last Line of Defense

    How do you deal with the pressure and stress?

    By making sure I'm not the only one in the shop who's capable of solving problems.

    I identify others who have the ability...

  • RE: Kitchen Duty

    Especially in a small IT shop, one must wear several hats.

    If one of those hats is 'kitchen duty', that's all right with me. Having a nice break-rook or canteen is...

  • RE: No Handwaving Away the DBA

    patrickmcginnis59 wrote:

    ... other than the mutable transaction id, bitcoin as such doesn't seem to be broken.

    Perhaps not in the technical sense, but it is still is subject to the restrictions...

  • RE: No Handwaving Away the DBA

    "...if you think that switching to NoSQL will just let you hand-wave away all of the challenges of running a database, you are terribly misguided."

    But it seems increasingly there...

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