I read an article this morning about a consultancy that did a test with 5 teams of senior consultants.

• 4 were told that reports had been written by a team...

One of my bosses had an Outlook rule to delete any email where he was CC'd.

If he came back after vacation, he would go to his "unread" list.  CTRL+A, DEL. ...

General de Gaulle is reputed to have had two trays on his desk.  Instead of labelling then IN and OUT they were labelled

• Problems that will be solved by time

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Yeah, once I came across the restriction in Oracle licensing that, if you virtualize your Oracle database on any hypervisor other than Oracles' own hypervisor, you had to license...

I now know why it is called a software tax.

Apparently, the UK tax code runs to 10s of thousands of pages.  There are tax accountants and specialist companies to help...

Wow.  This one falls in the category of those things that are obvious, but only after someone says it.

I do wonder if some of the momentum behind NOSQL and polyglot...

I wonder if I could get away with For Evigt by Volbeat?

I'm full on board with "Perfect is the enemy of good", but there has to be an agreed minimum quality bar.  Agreed by all affected parties.

It isn't fun to...

I'm not concerned about the formatting either.  I'm interested in understanding what the JSON documents represent.  If I have to ingest JSON documents and their...

Personally, when I design something new, then yes, I produce a logical model.  When I inherit something, I'll look at the physical model and do the best I can.

What I...

Since I wrote the original draft, I put the idea to our COO.  They have started to build a program of "Understanding our business" training.  I wasn't expecting such a...

I've just read a book called "There is no Planet B" by Mike Berners Lee.  He makes a similar point about energy-efficiency schemes.  The gist was that if you make...

Back in 2014 I went to QCon in London.  MongoDb (the 10Gen) had a presenter who said the data modelling is MORE important in the NOSQL world, not less.  He...

Some years ago, I was told on a Friday afternoon that a bunch of college graduates were joining us on Monday.  I was voluntold that I was assigned one of...

I think this article is a prompt to review a lot of things we have learned as "received wisdom".

I inherited a process for rolling back a failed data load for...