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  • 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

  • Reply To: Patching Challenges

    I think the biggest gift from the shift to the DevOps culture is in thinking "how do I prove this works" before touching a line of code.

    We test far more...

  • Reply To: Where Does NoSQL work well?

    Kristof Kovaks produced a good thumbnail sketch of various NOSQL solutions and has updated his page at least once. https://kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis

    Web session info and state then something like REDIS works...

  • Reply To: Evaluting a DBA

    Now, if you really want to have some fun, ask people to pronounce the word "tuple".  If they get it right in your opinion, either give them Tulips or Tupperware...

  • Reply To: Evaluting a DBA

    will 58232 wrote:

    Anyone yet to take me up on explaining why a relational DBMS is called "relational"? It's a pretty fundamental question for a DBA.

    Dr Codd described a relation in a...

  • Reply To: Evaluting a DBA

    If I was looking for a lead DBA beyond the technical experience I would be looking for someone who

    • Keeps calm under pressure
    • Is good at explaining things to more...
  • Reply To: Useless Hackathons

    I would agree with the CIO.

    One company I worked at had a programme, sponsored by the CEO, to allow any employee to improve any pain point.

    The programme took 1 day...

  • Reply To: The Tech Blame Game

    Looking back at my career I don't think those who played the blame game were particularly long lived, professionally speaking anyway.  The higher up the organisation they go the more...

  • Reply To: The NoSQL Misdirections

    As with all things it is recognising what the intended use of a tool may be and then deciding if that fits your use case.

    The MongoDB tech folk were very...

  • Reply To: A Computer on Wheels

    I go to a few classic car shows. I've noticed that the age at which a car becomes considered by someone to be classic isn't moving forward.

    I did ask why...

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