Thanks Steve and another excellent article.

My rant for the day is this; the poor, weak, or inept manager will continue in their current role and may even be promoted unless...

I work at one of the government agencies that do optimize their work and tries in every way to get it right. We over the past decades continued to...

Jay,

Has your attitude changed much since you reached that threshold...

A friend last year was asked why he worked seven days a week and for 10-12 hours a day. A couple of us told him he needed to...

Matt Miller (#4) (11/18/2014)

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They've...

Wayne West (11/18/2014)

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... It is unjust for workerbees to be put under a microscope and have their private life invaded if it's not done to management. This should...

Right on Steve! Just because you are good at something does not mean you cannot learn more. And with the toolset ever expanding you still have to remain...

Good Question and good answer. Thanks

First Question How many rows -...

pstanislav (11/14/2014)

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Agree with prior comments - the question was not clear. Recommended memory is 4GB, except for Express editions which is 1GB. The question did not state express...

Gary Varga (11/14/2014)

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I completely avoid measuring aspects of my life. There is something in my nature that means that when I do I lose all focus on the event and...

Eric M Russell (11/14/2014)

In my experience, the business is usally more forgiving when it comes to time and cost than they are willing to forgive a non-viable deliverable. Writing efficient...

Gary Varga (11/14/2014)

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For once I have to disagree with Miles.

Efficiency of coding and delivery of business needs go hand in hand.

Coding efficiency, for me, is maintainable code that this relatively...

As many of you know, I have been at this for a while. So from my back pages comes this.

Early on, we watched every byte of the program executable and...

But if...