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  • RE: Hunting Developers

    I am in agreement with Travis. The workplace is a place of work. But the Developer should be comfortable and for the most part the environment should not...

  • RE: A Computer Goes to College

    Eric M Russell (2/7/2013)


    Miles Neale (2/7/2013)


    Back in 1975 IBM or one of it's team unofficially stated it would take a two story computer the size of the state of Texas...

  • RE: Updating Views

    Hugo Kornelis (2/7/2013)


    paul s-306273 (2/7/2013)


    Steve - 0 points to you for creating a view using 'select *'...

    😛

    So how should Steve have made a QotD about the dangers of select *...

  • RE: A Computer Goes to College

    Back in 1975 IBM or one of it's team unofficially stated it would take a two story computer the size of the state of Texas to replicate the capabilities of...

  • RE: Data Journalism

    Pardon the ramble here please.

    In 1996 I wrote a piece of code for some very complex searching against bibliographic data in believe it or not PL/1. It was something...

  • RE: Basic maths - operator precedence

    First time through I had it wrong, had to reload because it did not look right. Second time through I got it and +1.

    Basic, yes. But also one that...

  • RE: Type conversions and Nulls

    Thanks Tom. After a number of controversial questions and explanations it is great to have one that makes you think and is right on target.

    +1

  • RE: The Cloud in Large IT Shops

    Remember how things work. Bleeding edge -> cutting edge -> early adopters -> the norm -> late bloomers and never made its. There is a cycle. We are...

  • RE: Dealing with Supervision

    GeorgeCopeland (2/4/2013)


    Great comments on this thread. I have had clients who put my desk right in front of theirs so they could watch what I do over my shoulder. That...

  • RE: Date Difference

    Nice +1

  • RE: Dealing with Supervision

    I have been there and have lived through it. It was part of the "proving myself" phase of the career and has not been a problem for decades. ...

  • RE: Oops! SQL column swap or SQL column clobber?

    Good question. Got it but had to replay the logic in the head a few times. Warmed me up for Friday morning. Thanks...

  • RE: Baselines

    DBA monitors on an ongoing basis. We have metrics on what is normal for each production server and watch for spikes. It is a normal part of the...

  • RE: Data compression

    Hugo Kornelis (1/31/2013)


    I started to reply here, but as the length of my reply grew I realized I probably better put it on my blog...

    Great question with good discussion!

    Hugo, ...

  • RE: A New Type of Colocation Facility

    When I think of the millions and millions of dollars spent on those cold data centers with special this and that compared to trucking in a container just plug it...

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