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  • RE: Go Code

    I would rather people took a course in change management.

    • What is the problem I am trying to solve?
    • How big is the problem?
    • What impact does the problem have?
    • Is the problem getting...

  • RE: How Do You Act When You Need to Learn New Technology?

    With all external sources of information you have to treat them with some scepticism.

    The phrase "completeness of vision" can mean many things. It might mean "we have a mature,...

  • RE: How Do You Act When You Need to Learn New Technology?

    Rod at work (11/8/2016)


    This is a bit of a tangent, but I had to respond to the mention of Gartner. Before I came to my current job all I knew...

  • RE: How Do You Act When You Need to Learn New Technology?

    The problem with the new "shiny bobbles" is that no-one really knows how to use them except the people who wrote them and those people aren't necessarily the ones who...

  • RE: I can ODBC clearly now

    Microsoft is a bit of a funny company. It has shaped so much of my career and yet it seems adept at shooting itself in the foot.

    ODBC as the...

  • RE: TempDB growth due to version store on AlwaysOn secondary server

    Great article, well written. I'd hope for something this clear if I was on call.

    Any idea what caused spid 484 to hang around?

  • RE: What's Your Backup Speed?

    How about the restore speed?

  • RE: Server Hardware or Coffee?

    I enjoyed the expensify article.

    There seem to be quite a few articles emerging along similar lines. Some of the articles I've seen advocating a slimmed down architecture sized for...

  • RE: Server Hardware or Coffee?

    Sean Redmond (11/3/2016)


    The horrifying thought is that Microsoft will start to include the coffee-factor into their licensing calculations..

    Try Oracle licensing and you will never complain about Microsoft licensing ever again.

    I...

  • RE: Generating Our Own Bad Data

    Terry Pratchett described how the city of Ankh Morpork dealt with a plague of rats by paying a bounty on dead rats delivered. Despite this the rat problem kept...

  • RE: The Forever Technology War

    Over the years I have had to learn a bit about most things and although some things really weren't my boat I benefitted. This was because they gave context...

  • RE: The Forever Technology War

    I read a blog post about a bloke in a coffee shop who was approached by an old man who turned out to have been one of the most important...

  • RE: Emotions and Decision Making

    Gary Varga (10/28/2016)


    I really enjoy utilising new technology but as a mature developer I have one fundamental question when a team (including me) wants to roll out new tech:

    After the...

  • RE: Emotions and Decision Making

    I've learned to ask why a particular response occurs and to keep drilling down until I get to the root cause. In architecture this is called the five whys.

    Why...

  • RE: Who is that masked man anyway?

    I worked at one place that had an "AS-LIVE" environment. It was an exact copy of the LIVE environment as it was two weeks ago. It was accessible...

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