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If you have a default that means "not specified" then all well and good. If you have a default that presumes someone filled something in then that is dangerous,...
June 9, 2015 at 6:46 am
For some reason I kept hearing "by the time a man thinks his father may have been right he has a son who thinks he's wrong".
Back in the 1980s I...
June 9, 2015 at 6:40 am
HR = Human Resources. If I am going to buy (hire) a resource then both I as a manager and the future employee both have an acceptable range in...
June 7, 2015 at 2:18 pm
GoofyGuy (6/1/2015)
That happy situation probably applies only to database developers in companies who are developing databases for in-house use only.
Indeed, as Mr Russell explained to me already (twice).
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You write...
June 2, 2015 at 2:08 pm
There is a mantra of "If it hurts do it more often". The meaning of which is that if you have to do a task over and over again...
June 2, 2015 at 1:54 pm
I had a task that required iterating through a result set from a query. On a whim I tried it in a WHILE loop and then tried it by...
June 2, 2015 at 1:47 pm
I used them before I understood them. The problem is that if your audience don't understand maths and/or don't trust your figures they go with gut feel.
A million to...
May 29, 2015 at 10:37 am
This strikes me as a natural progression from the Netflix chaos monkey and other simian army tools.
May 27, 2015 at 5:17 pm
Nice one Gail and good point Jeff about the experiment needing to be reproducible.
Reproducible implies that the conditions of the experiment should have been meticulously recorded. One point I...
May 25, 2015 at 2:20 am
Doctor Who 2 (5/24/2015)
How do you do unit tests in T-SQL?
Try http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-test/
It is possible to devise your own method of initialising a starting set of data, executing your stored...
May 24, 2015 at 12:01 pm
I heard a story about a team that absolutely positive that they had got a test for every possible permutation and combination of inputs that could be thrown against their...
May 18, 2015 at 2:22 pm
My personal bugbear is that IT sectarianism rears its ugly head when it comes to commenting code. There are hard core polarised views held by noisy evangelists and a...
May 18, 2015 at 3:43 am
A big part of the problem (I think) is the tendency to move responsability for testing away from development, and employ test/QA people who have no idea what the software...
May 18, 2015 at 3:17 am
I come from an era where you had to know a bit of everything to work in IT including how to use a soldering iron and crawl through roof spaces.
I...
May 12, 2015 at 12:57 pm
I'd love to hear what Microsoft do with testing SQL Server. Do they use TDD/BDD, manual methods and are they designing SQL Server code to be testable?
What are the...
May 12, 2015 at 12:44 pm
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