My best stories mostly involve other people.

Years ago there used to be a CMS call Obtree. Three of us built a mechanism to allow content to be exported to...

Yes I understand that, and that having a link between...

Web analytics does generate a large volume of data relative to the OTLP activity that the web site produces. Products such as Speedtrap shred out the data including any...

The data growth isn't coming from OLTP.

I've been watching and participating in the Big Data world for a while and I see non-IT people bragging about their Big Data usage...

hakim.ali (6/7/2016)

This. Over and over.

I think it's about loss of control. It's okay to do it (from a developer's perspective) because they are the ones choosing the exact details of...

Eric M Russell (6/6/2016)

I hate meetings where the important architectural decisions have already been made behind closed doors and all the only reason they put the development or DBA team...

One of my managers always volunteered to keep the minutes, that way his points were always recorded and inevitably signed off.

There's clearly an art to running a meeting and there's...

@steve-2, I'm pretty sure that you started using the pubs database much earlier than SQL2014. I suspect that you used it pre-SQL Server 6.x.

I liked the way that Adventureworks...

Many a true word said in jest, Jeff. I should change the picture.

It's my mid-life crisis purchase as I couldn't afford a meno-porsche. I wrote it off and...

There's a presentation that demonstrates that you may as well not bother with an IT degree because the pace of change is so fast that by year 4 what you...

In 30 years I've only worked for one company that didn't provide coffee. My 1st place we had a rota to go down to the wholesalers for a catering...

Obviously I agree on the racial...

Experience trumps education

Achievements trumps Experience.

My heart sinks when I read "Responsible for". It doesn't say whether you were hands on, whether you achieved something or whether you just...

Wonderful idea, pure common-sense. Will never work. You face the devil's own job to get a people in the same company to sit in a room and come...

Face to face is extremely effective because the communication is verbal and visual and a true dialogue.

Written communication gives the opportunity to think before acting but requires a great deal...