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  • RE: Do You Want a Meritocracy at Work?

    Gary Varga (6/14/2013)


    jay-h (6/14/2013)


    Richard Warr (6/14/2013)


    In the UK age discrimination in the workplace is now illegal and rightly so. Whilst there are clearly people who still believe that younger people...

  • RE: Do You Want a Meritocracy at Work?

    Well, I am perfectly OK with the concept. It doesn't work that way in reality though.

    First, if someone is better at something than I am, they should be compensated...

  • RE: The Five Year Plan

    We need to remember that these people get paid to make predictions, not to be right. Maybe one day the C-Suites of the world will recognize that these predictions...

  • RE: Data Vision

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/12/2013)


    lshanahan (6/12/2013)


    We all make mistakes, and may never catch all our errors in testing, but we damn sure better catch our stupidity. Not checking...

  • RE: Data Vision

    djackson 22568 (6/12/2013)


    lshanahan (6/12/2013)


    Point being: ...but there is also a place and time to proactively evaluate our systems and look at ways things cold improve.

    Which is exactly my point. ...

  • RE: Data Vision

    lshanahan (6/12/2013)


    Point being: ...but there is also a place and time to proactively evaluate our systems and look at ways things cold improve.

    Which is exactly my point. Too many...

  • RE: Data Vision

    Or, we could do what we are already supposed to do, and check the data being entered before saving it.

    You idea is a good one, but the example just struck...

  • RE: Quickly Copy Data

    jason 63816 (6/6/2013)


    Sure, but when you've encountered similar enough problems to solve enough times - you can often skip the analysis and use a "good enough" solution that works well...

  • RE: Quickly Copy Data

    It comes down to doing analysis. Too often we get into the rut of doing things exactly the same way every time.

    When faced with a problem that...

  • RE: Fear Fear

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    Microsoft released an update to XP (maybe 2000) that broke any PC running Norton or McAfee. Oracle released a flawed version of Java that was so bad Apple denied...

  • RE: Helping MS Help Us

    Steph Locke (5/29/2013)


    djackson 22568 (5/29/2013)


    Steph Locke (5/29/2013)


    Whilst on the topic of upvoting useful functionality... things like adding native alternating row colours in ssrs would be super handy...

    https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/483013/proper-support-for-banded-rows-green-bars

    SSRS has fallen by...

  • RE: Helping MS Help Us

    Steph Locke (5/29/2013)


    Whilst on the topic of upvoting useful functionality... things like adding native alternating row colours in ssrs would be super handy...

    https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/483013/proper-support-for-banded-rows-green-bars

    SSRS has fallen by the way side a...

  • RE: Helping MS Help Us

    Kevin Wood-419472 (5/29/2013)


    I also have made my career with Microsoft tools and they've done a lot right over the years. Yes, they've stumbled but they've always seemed to pick...

  • RE: Helping MS Help Us

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/29/2013)


    djackson 22568 (5/29/2013)


    I don't have an opinion on the error table. However, I do have an opinion about what you are doing.

    Using this forum...

  • RE: Helping MS Help Us

    chrisn-585491 (5/29/2013)


    I noticed they left out Windows 8 on the list of products that you can submit feedback on...

    Windows 8, I think I heard of that once. Isn't the...

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