There are so many NOSQL solutions that it is easier to say what NODQL is not than what it is.

As a data architect one of my great frustrations was solutions...

Jeff Moden (1/2/2016)

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Perhaps it's time to start listening when a person gets to the point of citing incompetence of others because they only get to that point after they've given...

Nearly finished my solution to this. Turns out to be far more involved and have loads of gotchas than a casual approach would reveal.

TomThomson (12/31/2015)

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I find I can work a long week without getting tired, but can't do it every week. The idea that one becomes tired and incompetent after one fifty...

TomThomson (12/30/2015)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/12/2015)

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a fundamental broken concept of information technology is the lack of security practices and architectures being built into our platforms and applications from the...

It's quite tricky recruiting for...

Has change ever gone away?

I work in an environment with a heavy dependence on contract resource. How do you transfer the domain knowledge to the contract resource in order...

I wish this wasn't an April Fool.

Microsoft does a lot more with the open-source community than it is credited with so I still have hope

Ivanova (12/21/2015)

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Slightly off-topic; while working for a large financial institution, I was approached by one of the security team. He was a highly-paid and allegedly very security-savvy contractor. His request...

What is really sad is that if you sit down with a business person and listen (really, really listen) to what they are trying to do

a. They are grateful...

I could believe most of it, even the bit about people listening but not the bit about people acting.

Someone at a senior level chose that software and they won't thank...

It's interesting reading this a few years on.

I've come to realise that so many things stem from a businesses desire to move faster than IT can keep pace and the...

In short when it is perceived as mutually beneficial there are no complaints on either side.

For the extra hours I put in I gained knowledge, the satisfaction of solving challenging...

Render unto Caesar!

I have often gone the extra mile because I knew that my employer would reciprocate.

It was either time off in lieu, beer and pizza or something that said...

The trick is in training the system in the first place. I remember playing with a package called 4Thought back in the 1990s. I think you have to...