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  • RE: Hack Us

    This strikes me as a natural progression from the Netflix chaos monkey and other simian army tools.

  • RE: The Scientific Method: a call to action

    Nice one Gail and good point Jeff about the experiment needing to be reproducible.

    Reproducible implies that the conditions of the experiment should have been meticulously recorded. One point I...

  • RE: Documenting with Tests

    Doctor Who 2 (5/24/2015)


    How do you do unit tests in T-SQL?

    Try http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-test/

    It is possible to devise your own method of initialising a starting set of data, executing your stored...

  • RE: The Service Pack Fiasco

    I heard a story about a team that absolutely positive that they had got a test for every possible permutation and combination of inputs that could be thrown against their...

  • RE: Documenting with Tests

    My personal bugbear is that IT sectarianism rears its ugly head when it comes to commenting code. There are hard core polarised views held by noisy evangelists and a...

  • RE: The Service Pack Fiasco

    A big part of the problem (I think) is the tendency to move responsability for testing away from development, and employ test/QA people who have no idea what the software...

  • RE: Not Only a Meeting of Minds, but of Open Minds.

    I come from an era where you had to know a bit of everything to work in IT including how to use a soldering iron and crawl through roof spaces.

    I...

  • RE: The Service Pack Fiasco

    I'd love to hear what Microsoft do with testing SQL Server. Do they use TDD/BDD, manual methods and are they designing SQL Server code to be testable?

    What are the...

  • RE: Can Auditing Fail?

    I get not wanting to be impactful, but then what's the point of auditing?

    It's a blame system with proof:hehe:

  • RE: Can Auditing Fail?

    I think this one can be chalked up to immaturity. Business people would cheerfully descope a whole raft of IT concerns if they could. Auditing is not seen...

  • RE: Is It Time to Upgrade?

    I know of a case where DBA work was outsourced. Everything ran more-or-less OK until some very old hardware hosting a very old version of some mission critical software...

  • RE: Code Reviews

    Unfortunately it seems that the database world lags a bit behind the code world in terms of tooling and approaches.

    Products like SonarQube help in the code world as they allow...

  • RE: The Opportunistic Hacker

    I worry about those security provisions that manage to obstruct without securing stuff.

    I've just found out why my Kensington lock doesn't work. The rotating bezel had rotated to the...

  • RE: One Rule, Umpteen Constraints

    When I did the SQL6.5 courses they emphasised the usefulness of binding rules to user defined types.

    It was only later that I realised that tables created with user defined types...

  • RE: The Worst Comments

    With the mitigation that a SQL Proc can only be simplified so far I'd say the need to comment inline with the code probably indicates that code should be refactored.

    comments...

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