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  • RE: Are We Suckers?

    Anders Pedersen (12/18/2015)


    2 weeks before I was due for the production switch to 7, the application team was told they would get overtime to try to get it done. ...

  • RE: Are We Suckers?

    When I first started my current position and the project called for extended travel and lots of overtime, I would receive tokens of appreciation in emails, cards, and the occasional...

  • RE: Just Say No

    Gary Varga (11/25/2015)


    Some people struggle to take no for an answer so at times, as a freelancer, I have had to paint the picture of the most likely outcome if...

  • RE: Just Say No

    Early in my career I had difficulty saying no and it nearly wrecked my life both personally and professionally. Afterwards, I've tried to live by the motto that "You...

  • RE: Are you a Data Scientist?

    skeleton567 (11/11/2015)


    Over my career I saw many computer systems designed exactly this way too. Absolutely no understanding of how the user understood and worked with their data.

    One of the...

  • RE: INTERSECT

    Good demonstration. Too many folks don't realize that an INTERSECT is essentially like an INNER JOIN (or rather it's the other way around!).

  • RE: Are you a Data Scientist?

    Eric M Russell (10/1/2015)


    I simply tell family and friends that I work in Information Technology and then tell them what the company does. I don't provide more detail about my...

  • RE: Are you a Data Scientist?

    Interesting comments Steve. I too, have seen the "big data" bandwagon that so many have jumped onto recently as though it's something completely new. There are relatively new...

  • RE: NOSQL and RDBMSs

    David.Poole (8/27/2015)


    The point I was trying to make was that by using and extremely close relation of SQL on the NOSQL store you almost encourage people to use the wrong...

  • RE: NOSQL and RDBMSs

    maximilianorios (8/27/2015)


    The problem sometimes is people became fans of something and try to stick a solution into everything when it's the opposite, we need to understand the problem to find...

  • RE: NOSQL and RDBMSs

    Very interesting article. I've had my eyes opened quite a bit lately concerning NoSQL environments and I've reached the following conclusions:

    1. NoSQL solutions definitely have their shining moments and...

  • RE: Is Skynet Coming?

    I know that there is a lot of concern and even some fear about the capabilities of AI, however I don't think that we have to worry about it for...

  • RE: Identify sets of rows

    Jacob Wilkins (7/15/2015)


    If I understand what you want, you don't need to partition the result, since you want the number sequence to persist across all the values, based solely on...

  • RE: Naming Confusion

    While there is added security through obscurity by using coded names and numeric sequences, it becomes very difficult for people to remember them or to distinguish them one from another....

  • RE: SQL Server syntax in one document

    Sean Lange (4/24/2015)


    My guess is that if you had a single document stripped down like your example it would also take a lot of time to find the statement you...

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