I'm a moderator on a developer forum.

It's scary how many people ask how to install a shin brace for their gun so they can hit their foot with 100% accuracy.

I've...

It's your personal responsibility to yourself to keep your own skills current.

Occasionally, for brief, shining moments, you may have a boss or employer that cares about that. Few...

I like to build in error logging/reporting directly into an application.

If the application knows an error occured, it should log all pertinent info (depending upon the info, there may be...

I've worked with a lot of conference organizers in the Oracle user group community and they have similar problems

Most of them are pay-to-attend, unlike the local Microsoft code camps and...

This is essential for those who work for a consulting organization.

Time spent sending you to training is time not spent billing you to a client. Plus, not...

One way to get some action (in US companies) is to tell your CIO that the software does comply with the required Sarbanes-Oxley (or other regulatory) guidelines.

That will get the...

Years ago, the CIO mentioned in passing that he had ordered pagers for me and for the programmers who worked for me.

(Pagers were the high-tech equivalent of cell...

I was placed on a gov't project once where things were REALLY bad.

I had been in this industry for over 20 years and thought I had seen or heard how...

Worked on a project with a guy that had BrainBench certificates plastered all over his office.

He couldn't even figure out how to make a sandwich, much less code anything. ...

Nadrek (7/1/2010)

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And once the entire team has it, there's no longer as much reason for everyone to follow the same standards anymore; if you don't like the code, load it...

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This is in the format used in an earlier post:

select

a.COLUMN_NAME_1,

b.COLUMN_NAME_2,

b.COL_NAME_3,

b.COLUMN_4,

b.COLUMN_NM_5,

b.COLUMN_NAME_6

from

TABLE_1 a

join

TABLE_2 b

on a.TABLE_1_ID = b.TABLE_1_ID and

a.TABLE_1_ID2 = b.TABLE_1_ID2

order by

a.COLUMN_NAME_1,

b.COLUMN_4,

b.COLUMN_NM_5,

b.COLUMN_NAME_6

I prefer this format:

select

a.COLUMN_NAME_1

,b.COLUMN_NAME_2

,b.COL_NAME_3

,b.COLUMN_4

,b.COLUMN_NM_5

,b.COLUMN_NAME_6

from

TABLE_1 a

joinTABLE_2...

Don't forget, the low-paid flunky at the cloud vendor doesn't own stock in YOUR company.

He has no loyalty to anyone working at your company.

But he might want to make a...

Turns out it was a botched auto-install of a flash update sent out by the sysadmins.

:ermm:

Apparently, on my computer, the electrons went left when they were supposed to go right.

I suspect the memory pressure I'm seeing is a symptom, not the cause.

I think it's probably oversized lists in sharepoint. But that will take time to find and reorganize,...

No, web farm for the middle tier, clustered database on back end.

Nothing else of consequence running on the database server(s).