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  • RE: Managing Risk

    In the situation I spoke of earlier, this was someone trying to tell me that if my bold idea of using object oriented development techniques on our current project had...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Career Engagement

    So my entire career to this point has been "promotion by vacuum." I've done some gratifying things in the past decade or so, but I really feel like it's...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Career Engagement

    ronmoses (6/1/2012)


    I took c to be "miserable in my job, and I'd take a greeter's job at Walmart if they'd pay me enough to cover my mortgage." I'm in...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Never, Ever Use Clustered Indexes

    LadyRuna (5/31/2012)


    I believe the rule regarding indexes (clustered or not) is the infamous "It Depends".... because your choice of indexing style really does depend upon how you're planning to access...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Never, Ever Use Clustered Indexes

    Dean,

    Misunderstanding and mistrust of "everything" is widespread nowadays anyway. Database structure doesn't have the corner on this. Hmmmm. I'm still not sure what the point is. In my shop for...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Never, Ever Use Clustered Indexes

    Tons and tons of developers and plenty of DBAs still believe in not hooking yourself to a single vendor. I interviewed someone just a little over a year ago who...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Never, Ever Use Clustered Indexes

    Sorry about that. I was trying to make the point that "generic" database designs aren't really possible due to the nature of the underlying infrastructure. Clearly failed.

    I'm a little confused...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Create Your Own Intense Interview

    When the economy is slow and jobs less plentiful and the future is in doubt (like now) you can get away with paying good people less than what they are...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Is Empowerment Good?

    It all depends on who is wirting the code and if they truely understand what it is they are doing.

    Now that is one powerful statement there. It makes all the...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Is Empowerment Good?

    Jcrawf02,

    I also agree, business processes usually do precede technology. Now that said, technology can act as an accelerator to the process. 😀

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Is Empowerment Good?

    My signature says it all about technology.:-D

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Happy Memorial Day 2012

    Not sure why it is called "Happy".:-D

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Create Your Own Intense Interview

    There are five main "Red Flag" questions I ask an interviewer when I am interviewing:

    1. Do you give developers here sysadmin access to your production environments? If they answer Yes...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Use Tools

    Wouldn't the guy with more experience be hired back pretty darned quick?

    Yes, maybe a year or so later when he/she has run through all his/her savings and unemployment...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Use Tools

    Indispensable equals risk, and companies don't like that, so will attempt to reduce the risk so it's manageable. If that means reducing their capabilities in the process, well that's...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

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