Gary Varga (10/21/2014)

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Iwas Bornready (10/21/2014)

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We did a total rewrite of our internal software package. We used new technology and the project timeline ended up doubling before we were done simply...

Iwas Bornready (10/21/2014)

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After working at several companies the most common waste of money was believing that you would save money by buying in bulk and getting the items at a...

There seems to be this prevailing thought, both in governement and within corporations, that big problems can be solved by throwing big piles of money at it. This manner of...

BenWard (10/15/2014)

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The point I make is that people get angry with the governments spending billions on something they don't want, under the mistaken impression that the money is gone forever,...

BenWard (10/15/2014)

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It does keep the financial ball rolling...

At the end of the day, if a company does nothing more than produce an honest, high paying, satisfying job for 1,000 of it's own employees, then that's a worthwhile...

There are occasions when statisticians...

joshturnbull90 (10/11/2014)

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I had an interesting one where I managed to save £40 on my car insurance by declaring myself as a business analyst rather than a project manager. If anyone...

Luis Cazares (10/10/2014)

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This editorial reminded me of this site:

http://www.tylervigen.com/

Did you now that US spending on science, space, and technology correlates with Suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation? Or that Divorce...

From what I've seen, restraunts with multiple TV sets (ie: sports bars) tend to have a higher calorie fried menu, and even folks who normally eat healthy will occasionally go...

BWFC (10/10/2014)

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But it's in the Daily Mail, it must be true. Are you suggesting that what they publish may not be entirely accurate. My whole belief system and...

Speaking of research studies with questionable cause and effect, I see this type of thing all the time on the morning news shows. Below is a good example.

How where you...

If you want no-fuss upgrades to the latest service pack and bug fixes, then perhaps SQL Azure is the way to go.

-- query allocated temp tables with record count and size.

use tempdb;

select o.type_desc

, substring(o.name,1,charindex('__',o.name)+1)+right(o.name,12) table_shortname

, si.name index_name

, case si.index_id when 0 then 'HEAP' when 1 then 'CLUSTERED' else 'NONCLUSTERED' end index_type

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We've already seen SQL Server move to a pace that releases new versions every two years and bimonthly patches to fix issues. Imagine that we could get patches even more...