patrickmcginnis59 10839 (4/18/2013)

---

I'm now getting the general idea about some of these "pressure" situations I'm hearing and based on what I'm understanding from you guys, I'd like to take the...

patrickmcginnis59 10839 (4/18/2013)

---

Lol I've never felt that to be a pressure situation. That could be...

Thats not obviously my final conclusions, there could be real downsides to the topics this seems to address, but my first impression is that its a net drive for...

patrickmcginnis59 10839 (4/17/2013)

---

Now, I'm willing to play devils advocate for either side, so I'm curious about what alternative motivations for each side we can think of? Obviously big measures taken...

I've personally had some activity way back when on SSC, but moved over to Experts Exchange for the most part. It has a broader view and the certification in multiple...

Jeff Moden and opc.three

Now that you two have finally agreed to disagree, I'm going to throw oil on the fire.

Vendors are not your enemy!

I (and our team) were responsible to...

I agree with not accepting defaults. But if you set a rule against a default -- make it consistent.

My SW company was sold to a different parent company last October....

Jeff Moden (4/4/2013)

---

For example, if you have some performance challenged code that uses a huge number of resources because someone simply used DISTINCT to get past an accidental Many-to-Many join,...

I've been following this post since the beginning. You want to talk about not seeing the forest for the trees? This is getting into not seeing a tree because of...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/29/2013)

---

Jim,

You can dislike it, but that doesn't mean you're right or wrong. That was my point. There are hundreds of millions of office users. Lots...

Desktop (and for grins, try both).

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/29/2013)

---

MS shouldn't listen to you. They should listen to large trends, and that isn't necessarily you. I hear lots of SQL power users thinking MS...

I have turned it off in everything MS, and 99.9% of all other...

I worked for a bank for a number of years. We were very good about shredding everything, to the point that if any quantity of paper was found in the...

Revenant (3/25/2013)

---

Will anyone care what we left on our hard drives? Does anyone care what is punched in the cards that were processed 50 years ago and which are,...