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...

I've been through all 3.

The problem with the nuclear option is that you are looking at the DB in isolation. In my experience the state of various components within...

Gary Varga (12/5/2016)

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David.Poole (12/5/2016)

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Our CIO stood up and said that our delivery targets were ambitious and have very little slack in them to investigate the best ways of doing things....

Our CIO stood up and said that our delivery targets were ambitious and have very little slack in them to investigate the best ways of doing things. He then said...

I think I would push for the DDL commands to be part of the ANSI SQL Standard before setting them up in SQL Server.

I think there should be a new...

I've a sneaking suspicion that the law is mainly for the benefit of lawyers rather than the persons under dispute.

Quangos are not for the benefit of those for whom the...

What I'd like to see is a framework to support whistle blowers.

By all means insist on evidence but whistle blowers need protection. Most companies have a whistle blower policy...

It should be and would be but for vehicle cloning

Gary Varga (11/29/2016)

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David.Poole (11/28/2016)

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What puzzles me is that developers aren't much better at data modelling. Surely you have to be pretty good to come up with a decent object...

What puzzles me is that developers aren't much better at data modelling. Surely you have to be pretty good to come up with a decent object model in the...

dalland (11/28/2016)

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David.Poole (11/28/2016)

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I think context is all with person records. If you are storing medical procedures to be carried out then you absolutely want to make sure the right...