I believe that SQLCLR is a success. A lot of the hype was hogwash and always would be. It is a feature for use when T-SQL isn't the right tool....

I was gutted, and not, to miss last years as it was just up the road from me in Telford when I was abroad enjoying with my family the sunny...

I use a variety of techniques stipulated here including adding PRINT statements (majority), raising errors, SQL Debugger, Profiler, viewing the execution plan.

If it is just SELECT statements then sometimes I...

EdVassie (2/9/2015)

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One thing I noticed after going through burnout is that some thing I used to cope with were just not happening anymore. After being very rigorous on deadlines...

A spot on article and some great comments however I have come across exceptions once or twice to the "no one was intentionally trying to be difficult" sentiment.

I would say...

I really enjoyed everyone's view on Hadoop. From my development perspective this has yet to come up on any project that I have worked on or anything that I have...

I believe that my position agrees with Megistal's. For clarity, when I said "deviation is allowed but needs explaining" I should have said "deviation is allowed but needs justifying"!!!

I have found that there is no team or stakehold who hasn't been the cause of a defect. Developers (or any sort) are responsible for unit and, possibly, integration testing....

I have found that within software departments where they develop products, as opposed to in house applications, that there is more likely to be a developer rotation into support. There...

I have written, in part or totally, a few programming standards documents. I have read many more. My favoured format is to describe them as guidelines, explain that deviation is...

I've suffered burnout on a number of occasions. I don't recognise the phases as suggested in the quoted article. Once I suffered and it was down to the business owner's...

Eric M Russell (2/6/2015)

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Gary Varga (2/6/2015)

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Eric M Russell (1/12/2015)

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...I read an interesting book the other day (well actually it was back in the early 1990s) by guy named Kimball. His...

Eric M Russell (1/12/2015)

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...I read an interesting book the other day (well actually it was back in the early 1990s) by guy named Kimball. His ideas sounded similar to this...

I remain amazed at the lack of testing of backups!!!

It appears to be a tale of one service not anywhere near the standards of others and risk tarring them all with the same brush.