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My concern regarding data quality is largely that it is absent.
The solution compiles, tests run, the users like the UI, job done. The reporting/BI aspect is someone elses problem.
Only...
November 21, 2012 at 11:54 am
Darren Wallace (11/20/2012)
Ultimately any task where you care more about high speed and low cost than you do about consistency is a great candidate for NoSQL.
Anyone have a view on...
November 21, 2012 at 1:29 am
Search is one of those things where you'd expect an RDBMS to be much stronger than it actually is. Any form of data repository is only as good as...
November 20, 2012 at 1:40 am
Revenant (11/16/2012)
I agree, but numbers that David quotes are at least 10 times higher than what I hear from our ops.
Our ops guys flex the quote depending on the IO/throughput/access...
November 18, 2012 at 10:03 am
Very much so.
The cost of storage influences the following:-
Timescales for development i.e. lead team for the...
November 16, 2012 at 1:24 am
You could try executing sys.sp_enum_oledb_providers
October 26, 2012 at 2:25 am
They seem to forget that if you want something real bad, you'll normally get it that way.
I'll be using that comment a few times I think.
I think IT...
October 22, 2012 at 1:19 am
CFO "what happens if we pay for training and they leave"?
CTO "what happens if we don't pay and they stay"?
October 19, 2012 at 1:31 am
I've been playing with Hadoop both locally and in AWS and although a newbie to it I've had a few reality checks with it.
Firstly, it is still in the early...
October 16, 2012 at 1:56 am
When I wrote The danger in hiring stars[/url] it became apparent to me that a "star" employee exists within an whole ecosystem.
If you take the star out of that ecosystem...
October 10, 2012 at 1:37 am
Its funny looking back at a debate 5 years ago and seeing what has changed (very little). If you saw this first time around chances are your company has...
October 4, 2012 at 1:37 am
In the UK employment law prevents an NCA restricting a person's employability.
My NCA and employment contract says that I cannot work for a competitor in the specific line of business...
September 28, 2012 at 1:49 am
I had a long discussion with a tech lead regarding pair programming and productivity. There is an aspect of you can't change a thing but you can change your...
September 27, 2012 at 12:14 pm
hakim.ali (9/17/2012)
Good reading, thanks. The NoSQL movement is more than 20 years old? Didn't know that...
I think NoSQL is a new name for a much older concept.
In fact I think...
September 18, 2012 at 6:09 am
All done on a PC that we would all toss today.
Moon landing 1969
IBM PC 1981
I'm not sure if they even had 8bit processors back in 1969. I...
September 13, 2012 at 2:47 pm
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