A lot of the stuff we take for granted these days just didn't exist or was in a fledgling state.

I wish I'd known about "clean code".  To be fair,...

I've got an advantage in an open plan office in that I'm deaf. Remove my hearing aids and unnecessary distractions vanish.

I print out my calendar for the day and quit...

I'm unconvinced whether AOG and other replication or scale out technology increase or decrease database availability. Designing the applications (and monitoring) to be more fault tolerant can increase system...

I don't think that you can get a 1 minute diagnosis on a newish system.

Continuous improvement and engineering excellence is the way to get there.  The cycle I would expect...

If you outsource you get a fixed scope and budget.

• The advantage is that you get exactly what you ask/pay for.
• The disadvantage is that you only get what you...

The page on the MongoDB site gives a 404.

MongoDB's strengths are also its weaknesses.

It doesn't care about the design of its collections. It'll punish poor design with poor performance but...

Most of the effort should go into thinking about what you want to test and why.

Does a test of an insert statement keep on working?  If NO then it could...

There are an increasing number of articles demonstrating that obfuscated data isn't as obfuscated as it might first appear.  The Netflix example being just one.

Tools like Redgate SqlGenerator can be...

I use virtual box and VMWare as some vendors (such as Teradata) supply virtual machines preconfigured.  Hortonworks and Cloudera both supplied their entire stacks as a VM.

I've had a few...

Those are incredibly important points.  Let us suppose that I have a product catalogue in a database and an external actor gains read access to that database.  The data they...

I'm seeing an increasing use of serverless technologies and managed services.  Why nurse maid a Zookeeper and Kafka combination when you can use a managed Kafka instance?

ETL solutions such as...

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Arnaud, how are you testing your app at present?  Do you have a unit testing approach to the non-SQL parts of your C# app?

A hard lesson I learned is that an environment building from scripts has to be damn careful where it pulls its software from.  You need a local repository where there...

I've had to live with several different software packages that have gone out-of-support.  You can get away with it for ages.  Emphasis on "getting away with it".

The problem comes is...

There is a difference between telling and selling.  You can tell people until you are blue in the face and no matter how right you may be that is no...