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Gary Varga (11/14/2013)
I agree but feel that the reality is that other defects will be noted due to occurrences of such things as missed or misunderstood requirements.
NSR = None Stated...
November 14, 2013 at 4:12 pm
There is a very definite skill in writing a suite of useful tests. You can't approach it as a "check the box" exercise.
Automated testing allows a huge range of...
November 14, 2013 at 2:42 am
Which features through the generations of Microsoft Office were regarded as a little clunky?
Early generations of SQLPrompt and SQLRefactor were clunky.
DBCC was a little clunky.
Profiler was a little...
November 7, 2013 at 12:48 pm
Coming back to this after 4 years the observations I would make is that the world has taken a different path.
People needed a low cost alternative to Oracle, SQL Server,...
October 31, 2013 at 2:34 am
There is a large secretive enterprise ETL company whose product is quite possibly the most powerful and easy to use tool on the planet.
I find with SSIS that when I...
October 22, 2013 at 12:09 pm
Lets suppose you are launching a new line of business. It's a bit of a punt. You hope it will be wildly successful but equally it might not.
Do...
October 15, 2013 at 3:40 pm
Eric M Russell (10/15/2013)
I don't mean a database feeding your...
October 15, 2013 at 10:49 am
If I resigned and the split was amicable I'd be expected to work my notice.
If I resigned and the split was acrimonious I'd want early release from my contract. ...
October 10, 2013 at 11:43 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/6/2013)
Jeff Moden (10/5/2013)
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I guess that qualifies as a "rant", huh?
Yep, and I agree.
Ditto from me.
October 8, 2013 at 6:32 am
Jeff Moden (10/5/2013)
Heh... you have to trust me on this... You DON'T actually want them to do their own backups. 😉
Backups fine, restores...not so much
October 7, 2013 at 2:18 am
Full-text searching has always been something of a disappointment for me.
SSIS is one of those tools that when I come back to it I spend a week swearing at it...
October 1, 2013 at 3:15 pm
Encrypt your data backups.
Store the certificates used to encrypt your backups somewhere else but equally secure.
Limit access to both the certificates and the backups to a tightly and formally designed...
October 1, 2013 at 1:52 am
It's a harsh fact of life and a quick look down the list of fixes in the older versions of SQL Server reveal some quite nasty bugs.
There is inherrent complexity...
September 25, 2013 at 1:51 am
There's big by design and big by lack of design.
Big doesn't necessarily mean complex or difficult it really does depend on your use case. For example, the Microsoft Fastrack...
September 23, 2013 at 4:07 pm
@charles, exactly so.
One of the implementations of Soundex stored the soundex value of a holiday destinations in an indexed field.
When the customer entered a location the system would...
September 12, 2013 at 3:38 pm
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