David Ziffer wrote:

In my experience, which now spans over three decades, the apps that are the hardest to change are the hand-written ones with lots of inconsistencies.

What a coincidence -...

David Ziffer quoted an article which stated:

The Romans created an army where systems, training, and supervision combined to create a world-conquering force ...

Systems fail when they cannot quickly adapt to...

As has been said many times, 'Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to...

The article's author wrote:

I’m never going to be the manager that simply lets the team research/evaluate and recommend solutions, but is this a workable approach?

My advice would be to set...

Robert Frasca wrote:

... truly distributed computing environments are pretty rare, at least in the context of ithe world wide installed base of SQL Server instances.

I'm using a distributed computing environment...

SanDroid wrote:

How could I have been so stupid to think we were talking about SQL on this web site. My apologies.

Every IT professional, I think, ought to constantly ask questions...

SanDroid wrote:

This explains why a person should use a UUID in application development ... not an answer to the question.

You are mistaken. The question asked was 'what is the...

Robert Frasca wrote:

Can someone provide a legitimate business reason for using a GUID?

UUIDs (universally unique identifiers) are valuable in distributed computing environments. Any one computing device may create a...

Robert Frasca wrote:

It just goes to show you that even Microsoft sometimes allows the developers to dictate data architecture rather than the data guys. (It's been my experience that object...

mtillman wrote:

... in the workplace, women may have a double-bind going on: too soft and they're, well - soft: too aggressive, and they've got a problem. So women may have...

david_wendelken wrote:

Experience shows that the one who is confident in what they say and how they say it gets picked more often. Correctness has little to do with it.

... but...

david_wendelen wrote:

I still use ["female"] speech patterns in scenarios where I think they are more appropriate than "male" patterns. And they work very well for me. If I guess wrong,...

cmcc wrote:

... by many standards I (female DBA, fifties) am a geek, a techie and can step on peoples' feelings with the best of them (-EQ). Nice try, though.

There are...

David_Wendelken wrote:

...I changed my speech patterns to match the "female" patterns described in the article.

The results were astoundingly dramatic.

I went from the alpha-male, coming up with the plans, getting people...

pjdiller wrote:

I guess my point is that the reasons behind the differences, whatever they may be, can quickly become irrelevent when I'm "face-to-face" with a single person.

Agreed, absolutely! 🙂