The BBC used to reuse tapes because the media used to cost a fortune. Every now and again someone finds a copy of an ancient TV program hidden in...

I've read this article immediately after a piece on Professor John Yudkin, the author of Pure, White & Deadly. A man who had his reputation destroyed for his meticulous...

There are so many dimensions to "realistic" test data not least that data has natural hot spots. It's difficult to come up with test data that truly simulate the...

Jeff Moden (12/18/2016)

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It's funny that you brought this up in an article just now, especially the part about ETL.

Even as early as SQL Server 6.5, I built things in SQL...

A particularly well timed editorial given the massive failure of Yahoo to secure it's customers data or behave appropriately in response to an immense hack as reported on BBC news...

It's been awhile since I used hibernate.

It used to declare it's parameters at the length of the input so a value of "DAVE" would ne submitted as NVARCHAR(4), whereas a...

I've found that ORMs can be used sensibly and effectively. Hibernate is one of the more powerful ones.

Unfortunately I've rarely seen any attempts to configure them beyond a basic...

Some ideas have their time. They may turn out to be bad ideas or be self evidently bad ideas but if their time has come don't stand in their...

I love these predictions. This one has another 18 months until it can be put to bed. My Grandfather was looking forward to flying cars.

The fundamental flaw in...

I'm pessimist when a proposed nuclear option does not offer a significant jump forward or does not form part of a roadmap that offers significant improvements.

I'm an optimist when the...

Excellent points from Tom.

Some of the best courses I've been on had nothing to do with IT.

Presentation skills training has stood me in good stead.

A course on instigating organisational change...

You are talking about a measure of flow for a business system.

You need enough flow in whatever you are measuring to establish what a normal baseline looks like.

In price comparison...

...but the editorial doesn't say Us$930/month for storage, it says it is for compute.

Storage costs are tiny. Surely stretch databases are there for short term capacity/migration issues

Not sure how many times Windows has been rewritten. I suspect that it is like Grandfather's axe, or in other words it followed type 2 evolution albeit a more...

As usual Joel's experience is exactly what I came across in my career.

If I was to choose the nuclear option...