For a year or so we had a bean to cup type machine, very nice. It broke and the boss didn't want to repair it eventually - heavy usage.

Nespresso -...

Great editorial, very relevant and to the point.

My company has a very diverse workforce. I'd like to think that we really do not consider background or gender or race -...

Yet Another DBA (5/24/2016)

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A Primary Key should not necessarily need to be clustered.

Few developers, and not all the dbas I have worked with actually know what a clustered index is....

Kaye Cahs (5/20/2016)

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I don't recall ever writing code that passes a literal value to SUM() before, so when I saw the literal, my brain translated it to a column reference....

fregatepllada (5/17/2016)

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With all due respect getting output parameter and return value from stored procedure via EF should not be a "black belt" coding endevour 🙁 What really escapes me that...

I'm going to say there is absolutely nothing wrong with the query in point 3. It's a little ungainly looking, sure, but that is here nor there regarding performance. I'd...

tindog (5/9/2016)

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Kyrilluk (5/9/2016)

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call.copse (5/9/2016)

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@Kyrilluk

That's not really the spirit is it now? I'd imagine the majority of us here will avoid meeting folk when we don't have to but I often...

There's always times when motivation comes a bit harder, but fundamentally I'll agree with my earlier self's post (comments p1), and David Burrows above.

@Kyrilluk

That's not really the spirit is it now? I'd imagine the majority of us here will avoid meeting folk when we don't have to but I often agree that us...

I think someone already used STUFF on the code sample to remove the STUFF command...

It would have been better phrased as 'Why would you include the STUFF command in this...

In general no, but I work in a sector where complexity is more of an issue than load right now. It's very rare for load to cause any problems -...

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Personally I'll use them if there is no other elegant way of solving a problem evident. Essentially when they appear to be the least of all evils. This happens reasonably...

Nice description!

Slightly sad for us technical types when analogy...

I think the other important thing for me is that the practice is rarely much like the training. Much as it would be nice to directly implement what we have...