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  • RE: Aging Software

    I have friends who are mechanics. They tell me that they get a lot of business from vehicles predating a point in time then a gap then vehicles...

  • RE: Aging Software

    I feel it is perfectly reasonable for a vendor to communicate the lifecycle of their software. Lets face it Microsoft give ample warning and a long period of time...

  • RE: What's a Code Smell?

    So much of what we talk about today has existed in some form for decades.

    Fred P Brooks wrote "The mythical man month" in 1975 after 25 years in the...

  • RE: What's a Code Smell?

    The thing about code smells is that they tend to be working code that someone was praised for delivering on time and to budget.

    Identifying the code smell is a thankless...

  • RE: What Can You Do?

    GoofyGuy (10/5/2015)


    ... there have been no shortage of cases where management or technical staff avoided securing their systems.

    And now for a different opinion[/url].

    Sometimes developers are being asked to perform their...

  • RE: What Can You Do?

    There seems to be a collective state of denial around security. "It will never happen to us"!

    The reality is that companies are playing Russian Roulette. The...

  • RE: The Work of the Ancients

    Having read through this thread the observation I would make is that where a data model is a good expression of the business process it has been designed to support,...

  • RE: The Work of the Ancients

    I know the UK tax system was supposed to be migrated to a client server architecture when such things were fashionable. As far as I am aware it is...

  • RE: Have a Think

    I know of senior managers who book an explicit spot in their diary which is sacrosanct.

    When I became a manager I found that I was pulled from pillar to post...

  • RE: Are you a Data Scientist?

    I like Alan's definition.

    There is a difference between a data scientist and the skills required in a data science department.

    No matter how predictive the models or actionable the insight if...

  • RE: No Time for Testing

    I prefer BDD over TDD as a business analyst and tester can work together to produce clearer requirements in an ubiquitous language that is human readable by a business person...

  • RE: Logging Tables

    Kristen, it sounds like you chose the right thing for your company, your use case and the size of problem.

    There are no absolutes. The epiphany I had was...

  • RE: Logging Tables

    At one point I would have taken variations and amalgamations of what has been written here.

    Now I would question why logging needs to be in the DB at all if...

  • RE: Find Missing FK Constraints and Fixing them

    I've been playing with this sort of thing for a while.

    1. Identify missing primary keys and unique constraints
    2. Identify the number of fields in the key
    3. Identify naming conventions for primary key...

  • RE: Data Sprawl

    The more data technologies you use the more you see the borrowing of ideas.

    In fact it becomes easier to switch between technologies once you grasp the underlying principles. Then...

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