"I don’t think we’re all going to be about of work tomorrow, but I think we all have to think about the skills we should have to make sure that...

I liked this essay on the subject of not dropping out:

https://medium.com/essays-by-kern/don-t-drop-out-ed0e8d14e22d

I guess it is saying don't do bad courses, and appreciate the value of intellectual rigour of any discipline. Live...

It appears the main problem here was the ability of the college to communicate what the courses were about and what was involved, and what the commercial application would be...

At my office the more common phrasing would be 'No-one died'. That's not to say we don't care by any stretch, and losing ones livelihood may be pretty stressful,...

I do appreciate the stability thing but somehow from my experiences with people that have worked there, I find them a little shady. Obviously this is not helped by their...

A good editorial that does show the clashes I encounter in my development life all the time. As a small company guy dealing with big companies I have to use...

I really, really like my naming to be exactly how I want it, and make every effort to get that right first time. In the course of modelling someone might...

If I was to put a position forward, in my experience the 'don't talk about salaries' rule is there to benefit the employer in terms of minimising payroll. Of course...

Fair play - the cry of 'It works on my machine though!?!' has been heard from my lips on occasion.

These days though I don't think I would ever say...

I too have seen all these styles used - Star Wars or Star Trek characters, simple numeric, suffix and prefix. Often mixed up as the administrators decide on one thing...

@Sean

EF code should not really need performance tuning in my opinion - direct usage should be reserved for menial type tasks. If you get to the tuning stage it's time...

Jeff Moden (4/29/2015)

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To be honest, with what happened with 2005 when it first came out and to 2012 over it's life until Sp2-Cu5 and what recently happened with 2014 Sp1,...

I actually managed to resolve this in the end, the package needed to be executed (debugged) in 32 bit mode.

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/john_paul_cook/archive/2010/03/24/running-32-bit-ssis-in-a-64-bit-environment.aspx

HTH.

I'm probably just going to do this via Access - I don't need the headache right now, thanks though.

We do have some review in place - it's mostly a senior developer going through whatever they think fit on the project. Personally I do review all SQL changes -...