There is a Terry Pratchett Quote where a character was complaining about juvenile delinquency before being skewered on some of the things they used to do when they were young....

My personal favourite was the guy who was asked why he was retrieving every record from a table and then filtering within the application. Using a WHERE clause was...

brannanliz (3/23/2016)

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Yes, yes it is and management often has an abundance. I agree I want to know the data is backed up and that it...

Don't get me started on this fetish.

Outsource your liabilities

Onboard your...

I see a recurring theme in business acquisition of technology and in the attitude to data disciplines.

21 years ago Amazon started and seemingly overnight we could order stuff in the...

You get some good ones and some that cause dark mutterings for years after.

One had the brass neck to ask me for a LinkedIn recommendation after I'd been through a...

I'm trying to think of productive meetings

1. Cigarette break. You find out what is really going on in the company and will probably meet people from both ends...

Andy Warren (3/21/2016)

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Dean/David. It's fair to say not all meetings are effective. On a good day that's a teaching opportunity, on a bad day it's just something to be endured....

If you are going to insist on punctuality of start then I'm going to insist on punctuality of the end, a clear objective to the meeting and an agenda. ...

Oh the joy of a receiving a notification that an issue has been closed only to find that it was tested in a parallel universe where bugs don't exist, users...

Understanding is different to knowing. As the old saying goes, a child doesn't understand a hammer.

I thought owning a tablet would allow me to read and research far more....

Eric M Russell (3/14/2016)

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I use the term "BlackOps deployment" referring to those scenarios where IT performs an undocumented operation in production without going through he offical change control process. Sometimes...

If it is within your power then design stuff to be automated.

I've just spent months trying to get a system that will be run by a very small team to...

Whether they are targeting Oracle or MySQL they are targeting Oracle.

Where's the growth for SQL Server going to come from if you stick with Windows only?

My experience with MySQL suggests...

One of the key things for an open-source product is to have a strong gatekeeper.

Linus Thorvald fulfilled the role fantastically for Linux, Shay Banmon did the same for Elastic Search.

Provided...