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  • Reply To: Eyes Wide Open

    Really good editorial!

    I listened to a lecture on the insurance industry where the speaker said that when you buy insurance you are really paying for someone else to bear the...

  • Reply To: Are You a Tech Company?

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    If you have to make multiple changes per week on a regular basis, never mind multiple changes per day, there is something seriously wrong with your evaluation, design, coding,...

  • Reply To: Does Log Data Belong in a Table or a File?

    Cloud vendors have their own logging solutions and means to query those logs, even if that is providing a transparent means of querying using one of their data technologies.

    One thing...

  • Reply To: What's Important to Your Organization

    I'd be curious to know if what you see in an organisation is a single organisational attitude to IT or something more nuanced?

    I read Ronald Damhoff's work on data quadrants...

  • Reply To: How Often Do You Patch?

    Applying service packs used to be a process that was weeks in planning and rehearsing.

    The number and sophistication of hostile actors these days results in pressure to patch frequently and...

  • Reply To: GoTo Looping

    Thank God there's no GOSUB in SQL.

    There's a school of thought that gets sniffy at overuse of if statements in OO languages.

    Such constructs feel like a vestigal organ like an...

  • Reply To: Taking time off

    As the Rush lyric goes "you're only immortal for a limited time".

    A few months ago I was talking with a friend who was trying to tell his wife that they...

  • Reply To: Messy Job Descriptions

    There's a tendency for the % missing skills to be off-putting at a lower figure for women than it is for men.

     

    We spent a lot of time focussing on the...

  • Reply To: Improving DevOps Automation

    In my organisation, regardless of whether it is web development, data engineering, DBAs, Data Analysts, Data Scientists everything gets put under a git compatible source control repositories.

    Those repositories are viewable...

  • Reply To: Importing a CSV into SQL Server Shouldn't Be This Hard

    I've used a variety of ETL tools. SSIS is my least favourite by a long way.

    There's an article for Python that illustrates why the CSVReader is so complex and it's...

  • Reply To: Enterprise Software

    My Dad is Amazon's greatest fanboy.  At 82 the idea that he can order something and get it same day delivery just blows his mind.  He can remember having to...

  • Reply To: How Do You Decide to Rollback?

    ZZartin wrote:

    The most important step is to understand the point at which you can actually roll back. 

    I think this is a really important point.  That is a step on...

  • Reply To: How Do You Decide to Rollback?

    The big thing that has changed for me in the past 10 years is the size and nature of the deployments.  Project deployments were big things carried out at 2am...

  • Reply To: The Tech Blame Game

    Sergiy wrote:

    Another thing I was never able to understand - why index tuning is a job for ops?

    they are definitely a part of table design, and changes to it should...

  • Reply To: Learning Intentionally with a List

    I've a goal to get a commit accepted into an open source project.

    For me this sets a clear target and a quality gate to reach

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