I take my hearing aids out when in the office. Our desks are capital I shaped so you can see the guy sitting next to you in the eye and...

I stopped watching Formula one motor racing a long time ago.  The microanalysis of performance had resulted in cars that made overtaking almost impossible and only a mistake in the...

Yes I have had many technical victories but as someone with Aspergers the best days have always involved success with other people. I've been extremely fortunate in the colleagues I have...

I have experienced many application rewrites and replatforming over my career. Very few down to obsolescence, most down to the app being replaced having descended into a big ball of...

You mean human beings accessing accounts they shouldn't using tools the shouldn't be using in a manner that has not been authorised?  There is legitimate monitoring software to provide governance...

I heard Simon Munroe's presentation when SQL Bits was held in Westminster.  At the time I asked if NOSQL should really be NORDBMS and was told no.  Now that so...

I find that ORMs are like all tools.  Used properly they work as intended.  I've only seen them used properly in demonstrations, never in real life.

I always think...

I got on fine with SSMS.  I disliked having to skip across to BIDS to do stuff.  I meant to use the Red-Gate SSMS plug-in project to see if I could...

I work with a number of databases and also database tools.  Some expect a semi-colon terminator, others don't.

One of the reasons that the NOSQL crowd started adopting a...

I just say I program computers for 'x' and turn the conversation back to their interests.

It depends entirely on the use case.
If you have a dimensional data mart then it's probably heavily denormalised
For systems such as SAS analytics they thrive on heavily denormalised...

I've just got back from a 2 week cruise around Scotland, Iceland and Ireland.  I deliberately didn't take any form of electronic device, didn't watch the news, avoided the onboard...

This article on using npm packages to steal data pretty much sums up the risks.  I believe the techniques used in the article have recently been