GoofyGuy (2/11/2015)

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I was talking from a technical client viewpoint.

Yes, so I understood, Gaz! We tend to see the world through our own coloured set of glasses; I'm a business application...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/11/2015)

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Perhaps, but I often don't overreact on the first occurrence. I think there are many one time events, and it isn't necessarily worth chasing them...

GoofyGuy (2/11/2015)

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But the web services are still just client applications as far as the RDBMS is concerned.

But not a business application, per se. One advantage of using web services,...

I find instrumental electronica or industrial music quite good. Even Raga.

One key issue that kept cropping up in my mind when reading this thread was that there was a lot of assuming that there is a single application for a...

GoofyGuy (1/26/2015)

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I think it's possible in many cases to upgrade a database over time by carefully planning your schema changes and accounting for those changes in your front end architecture.

If...

ryk 98103 (1/28/2015)

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I don't think that every issue needs to be solve to the root cause. There are plenty of times something goes sideways on one of my computers and...

Generally I do not customise due to rarely having control of the desktop and/or VMs I use at clients' sites. 3rd party plugins are usually disallowed too.

The following I tend...

...and Bristol fashion???

If everyone is onboard with regards to the two principles then the tension should be considered as a natural safety restrictor i.e. what we want to do tempered...

GoofyGuy (2/10/2015)

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Come to Staffordshire and have oatcakes...you'd love 'em

Ah, but the Staffordshire oatcakes have more wheat flour than oats. Or so they taste to me.

If you want the original product,...

Charles Kincaid (2/10/2015)

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Gary I think the process that you are referring to is called "dog fooding". It refers to eating your own dog food. I had some deep...

Eric M Russell (1/24/2015)

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Charles Kincaid (1/23/2015)

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Eric the folks in the UK just went, "What?". Over there "biscuits" means something else. However free food and coffee is likely to...

Employment legislation, at least here in the UK, has made it easier for the working class to have paid leave and to work less than 7 days a week.

There is...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/2/2015)

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I think you'd be surprised...

I schedule time for these. Not because I am organised but, the opposite, because I am so disorganised. I tend to group tasks together and put it in an electronic...