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Don't consider yourself a practitioner of one vendor's product over another's. Think of yourself as a generalist who is capable of specializing in multiple vendor specific technologies.
Jack-of-all-Trades, Master-of-None.
How many people...
October 3, 2014 at 6:56 am
I see more conservative businesses going to SQL Server. (Can't go wrong buying Microsoft...)The startups and some of the larger companies with talent are taking advantage of OSS; both the...
October 3, 2014 at 6:46 am
This appears to be a running battle between MS and its SQL Server user base.
This isn't a problem if you "go all in" with SQL Server and stay ahead on...
October 2, 2014 at 8:05 am
At least now MS has the BizSpark licensing which makes it affordable for startups.
Not when you factor in the tax costs of the licenses. And Microsoft doesn't hide that...
September 26, 2014 at 7:29 am
I do think MS is pricing SQL too high for standard edition. It makes postgres more attractive.
Bingo!
If you can afford the license costs and need all the features, SQL...
September 26, 2014 at 6:42 am
1) Cost, neither us or our clients has the extra dollars to pay for the increased licensing.
2) There's nothing in the new features that's compelling enough to upgrade.
3) If it's...
September 19, 2014 at 6:10 am
I look at this from both sides being both a admin and a accidental DBA. Too often we hear "ORM BAD, HULK SMASH!" from the DBA, when the real issue...
September 15, 2014 at 6:23 am
There's a certain class of companies, that just "Wing It". They are the "slum lords" of the IT/development world. Call it "Cowboy IT" or "Just Make It Work" development....
September 8, 2014 at 6:34 am
Does anyone else in your shop have such a good handle on Python? If not, what will they do if you leave or get hit by the proverbial bus?
Python...
September 4, 2014 at 8:13 am
I've deal with Cache although through an ODBC connection to a Credit Union core product called USERS/Datasafe. It's an odd duck, having evolved from MUMPS. (Try Google/Wikipedia for more...
September 4, 2014 at 7:12 am
Don't tell me that you too have read the UML spec which talks about Meta-Metadata.
No, I'm having nightmares doing dynamic configuration involving variables in SSIS. I'm think about having...
September 2, 2014 at 9:20 am
EDIT: "configurable configurable" just didn't make sense
Try Meta-configurable... 😀
September 2, 2014 at 8:43 am
After two agonizing weeks of semi-productivity in SSIS on a huge project, I realized my actual job is testing vendors software. (I love the core SQL Server engine, but there's...
August 25, 2014 at 7:01 am
The BI Developers that work on it usually use a subset of Prod data to do their initial development and I would say that less than 5% of their work...
August 22, 2014 at 7:07 am
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