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  • Reply To: Dread or Desire

    Assuming COVID becomes a non-issue I'd say hybrid office work would suit me.  Many of the people I work with are in a completely different office to me anyway so...

  • Reply To: Corporate Career Progression

    One place I worked took https://sfia-online.org/en as the base and pruned it back to suit the organisation.

    As managers we spent a lot of time mapping the skills needed for a...

  • Reply To: The case for SQL Server Agent 2.0

    I like idea of parallelism and also the on_success, on_complete, on_fail options

    Just as Microsoft looked at its competitors when it incorporated column store tech I think it should look at...

  • Reply To: Never let a good crisis go to waste

    We call it sneaking quality into the deliverables

  • Reply To: Prized PII

    The goal is to get control of my financial assets so apart from direct access I would say Insurance details.

    Home insurance reveals if your house is worth burgarling and how...

  • Reply To: Completely Encrypted Data

    The first thing I think of is profiling and extended event type activity.  If everything is encrypted in flight, at rest etc then what is the mechanism for legitimate 3rd...

  • Reply To: The Virtual Experience

    I'm not good with time management.  No matter what I am doing I feel I should be doing something else.  This means that I am easily distracted.  The feeling that...

  • Reply To: Do What Hurts

    We used to dread environment rebuilds.  Painful, likely to break and time consuming. It hurt.

    We are not quite at the stage where it is "click of a button" but are...

  • Reply To: Building Bad Software Faster

    In cycling terms there are two terms of disparagement

    • All the gear and no idea
    • £3K bike, 30 pence legs

    In DevOps terms you can have the best software, the most...

  • Reply To: All In to the Cloud

    To shift everything into the cloud you have to address all those bits of legacy pipework you have in your systems.  You have to understand all those strange data flows...

  • Reply To: SQL Server Phone Home

    We have to conduct an annual GDPR audit.  We've found it far easier to make adjusting the GDPR documentation part of the software development lifecycle than trying to perform an...

  • Reply To: Chopping Off Data

    The upsetting thing about this from a UK tax payer point of view is that this Excel non-solution has costs millions.   There's also an issue with the choice of vendor.

    I'm...

  • Reply To: Bean Counting to Burnout

    First few weeks meetings were far less, now my calendar looks like a losing game of Tetris.

    If doctors complain about paperwork you should see what UK teachers have to put...

  • Reply To: Experimenting with PostgreSQL in a Container

    Worth mentioning the -v switch for the docker run command to get a persistent volume.

    -v $HOME/docker/volumes/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data

    It will be slightly different for Windows, the code switch above is...

  • Reply To: Moving in the Post Pandemic World

    I live near in a small dormitory village (30 minutes cycling) the Peak District National Park in the UK.  If I drive then I've got good routes to some of...

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