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  • RE: Find Missing FK Constraints and Fixing them

    I'll give this one a go Steve. It dovetails nicely with some work I'm going to be doing on RedShift and Teradata.

  • RE: Data Liability

    I can see no winners in this other than the legal profession.

    People share so much on social media that I'm not sure what view would be taken for disclosure of...

  • RE: High Volume Reads and Writes

    If you are migrating to AWS I take it that your existing offering is either on your own physical tin or virtualised in your own data centre?

    I'd seriously recommend that...

  • RE: Who's a Good Developer?

    Thank God my last recruiter wasn't that shallow...

    I think you have the wrong end of the stick. If you have someone so objectionable that even the most affable member...

  • RE: Who's a Good Developer?

    I've interviewed loads of staff over the years including a few technically brilliant ones that were rejected unanimously by myself and whichever colleague was interviewing with me.

    • Technically brilliant but would...

  • RE: ER Modeling

    The point that keeps cropping up here is that anERD document is useful in the short term until the individual learns the system. The benefit the individual gets from the...

  • RE: ER Modeling

    The whole point of these models is that they are communication tools and I've found that people generally want one and curse the fact that one doesn't exist but are...

  • RE: Working with People

    I have Aspergers. I have had to learn to think about peoples motives and what will enable them to understand my point of view and to accept that even...

  • RE: NoSQL inside SQL Server

    I think the first thing to do is look at your use case, identify the pain points and see if the proposed solution addresses more pain than it solves.

    OLTP does...

  • RE: Adjusting Model

    Where there are utility procs such as those used to test for absent clustered indexes, primary keys, use of reserved words etc it makes sense to install these in the...

  • RE: The Case for Upgrading

    I'd say that a business should upgrade at the latest time possible but while it is still a choice rather than a diktat. An upgrade should take place when...

  • RE: No More Foreign Keys?

    Hmm... I guess why I find this topic so interesting is that I keep hearing this "the consequences will dire" statement about not using foreign keys and I just don't...

  • RE: No More Foreign Keys?

    If you are the person who will bear the consequences then if you are willing to do so then you can do without foreign keys. Chances are that if...

  • RE: Software Estimates

    If I have to paint an 8ft x 16ft wall then I can tell you with a fair degree of accuracy how long it will take having painted several such...

  • RE: Soundex - Experiments with SQLCLR Part 3

    Thanks Solomon. The strange additions to the characters in the alphabet can be dealt with by a function called ASCII folding. In the Apache Commons library the Daitch...

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