I'm definitely happy with agreeing rules in a group and then following those rules. As long as the rules are what I want to be done and not anyone else's...

bitbucket-25253 (9/8/2012)

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call.copse (9/8/2012)

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I think I have followed a similar trajectory to Phil. I have spent (literally) years writing specifications in the olden days. We spent approximately 40% on the project...

I think I have followed a similar trajectory to Phil. I have spent (literally) years writing specifications in the olden days. We spent approximately 40% on the project time on...

My interpretation would be that it certainly should do and that you will be correctly licenced if you buy per socket rather than per logical core.

This is well signposted...

mtucker-732014 (9/3/2012)

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I dont need to have been to Defcon to write about an article that someone has written. My evidence is Valerie's article, which as you can see if you...

@Mighty

I think that is a little picky - most will understand that a database row cannot inherit in the sense of programmatically subclassing an object. The rows are inherited in...

Jasmine D. Adamson (8/21/2012)

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call.copse (8/21/2012)

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Raoul Bastendorff (8/20/2012)

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skron (8/20/2012)

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I actually ended up going back to work early after heart surgery because HR would not stop calling me to tell me that...

Raoul Bastendorff (8/20/2012)

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skron (8/20/2012)

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I actually ended up going back to work early after heart surgery because HR would not stop calling me to tell me that I did not have...

Being a Brit I can honestly say the last thing I would ever do is not take any of my allotted holiday. Its just not happening. I don't think I...

@charles.byrne

Nice post and pretty much where I stand - although I would say I am far less concerned these days at using ORM technology a little more extensively than the...

All sounds fine to me GSquared. I would expect such a perspective from a DBA type. I would whole-heartedly agree with having one person in charge of the data model,...

Ouch! Nice monstering GSquared! I'm sure I deserved it.

By default if you query an object in EF / L2S you will get all (mapped) columns back. This is not done...

Jeff Moden (8/14/2012)

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That's what I like ORMs for is basic CRUD. ...

GSquared (8/13/2012)

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And even then, on simple queries, it has to assume no underlying database object will be changed without also recompiling, redeploying, etc., the code that accesses it.

If a table...

TravisDBA (8/13/2012)

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Here are just some of the reasons that I use stored procedures:

Security

The first ...

Performance

Parameterized queries are ...

Organization

Stored procedures encapsulate the logic of accessing and retrieving data...

Maintenance and Scalability

If...