...data? That's what you DBAs do right? I am just an interloper!!! 😛

I would like to work for a software development tools company in order to attempt to improve things....

Thank goodness the TV Production companies have not plumbed the depths of IT for shows (the excellent IT Crowd excluded). How they use computers in fiction is often painful enough...

The premise that your exercise in analytics was a failure only holds true if there was something to find. If there wasn't then failure to find something of value is...

Sometimes the rush to deliver something creates a maelstrom that ends up with poor code that is delivered at the same time or later than if it was done in...

David.Poole (2/4/2015)

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Maximum effectiveness in minimum effort.....simplest.....

If you look at well designed well implemented code it looks simple. You'd wonder why it took so long to deliver.

If you try and...

Really pleased to see that there is some longevity in roles. Clearly not for me but the combination is best for businesses and individuals alike.

t.pinder (2/12/2015)

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Gary Varga (2/12/2015)

... I have seen databases that stored gender as a bit that later on struggled with needed extension of gender to other states. Most of us are...

My example:

XML - using a RDBMS as an object database is backward as you do not get the true benefits of either style yet lose the benefits of relational data.

Also,...

jarick 15608 (2/2/2015)

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Oh I still see tons of developers who love to argue that that is a best practice to make your primary keys all uniqueidentifier data types.

It's...

I find that this varies from company to company, sometimes team to team or even from project manager to project manager. In fact I would go so far as to...

Sean Redmond (1/30/2015)

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What irks me is that there seems to be race to use eveyrthing that can be used up as soon as possible.

Much to my chagrin, the developers are...

The suggestions in the forum thread highlighted in the editorial are good (or better) but are suitably targeted at starting the functional task i.e. being a DBA. Of course Gail's...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/29/2015)

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GoofyGuy (1/28/2015)

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... there might be a legitimate complaint, but often we need to discard this one form as an outlier.

Chances are it seemed legitimate to...

GoofyGuy (1/28/2015)

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... there might be a legitimate complaint, but often we need to discard this one form as an outlier.

Chances are it seemed legitimate to the person who wrote the...

When I was a much younger professional I was like a sponge and read a callosal amount and retained it even for technologies I wasn't using. I moved on to...