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  • RE: Titles Matter

    GilaMonster (8/8/2014)


    What does "Technical Lead" say about me, I wonder...

    For me this says that you are a technology expert who can guide your peers and advise management. Anything beyond that...

  • RE: Titles Matter

    Oh and Andy's career advice regarding learning missing skills associated to the common skill set for a job title you are aiming for is great advice. I have never thought...

  • RE: Titles Matter

    Working as a freelancer I thought titles would hardly matter but they still do. People like to think in generalised terms and when they glance at your CV/Resume, security badge,...

  • RE: What do you consider important when performance testing?

    Miles Neale (8/7/2014)


    Eric M Russell (8/7/2014)


    Gary Varga (8/7/2014)


    In summary, measuring would only be indicative as opposed to quantifiable. Right?

    Measuring page reads would be more quantifiable than measuring duration. Duration can...

  • RE: What do you consider important when performance testing?

    Eric M Russell (8/7/2014)


    Miles Neale (8/7/2014)


    Eric M Russell (8/7/2014)


    The Fault (8/7/2014)


    Eric M Russell (8/7/2014)


    Even if the QA environment only has 10% the data volume as production; so long as the...

  • RE: What do you consider important when performance testing?

    Eric M Russell (8/7/2014)


    Staging a high transaction volume OLTP environment for QA and performance testing is actually much harder than a data warehouse environment. Data Warehouses tend to be static...

  • RE: Frustration with Bad Design

    GoofyGuy (8/6/2014)


    Dalkeith wrote:

    I think the best that you can do is set up a variety of bodies with comparitive but opposing viewpoints and let them watch each other. Hence the...

  • RE: Getting It Right First Time. Almost?

    andrew gothard (8/6/2014)


    Gary Varga (8/5/2014) "I don't need to comment my code because I named everything well and used simple well named methods so it is all obvious".

    Usually followed by...

  • RE: Getting It Right First Time. Almost?

    Don't forget to count any licences available from MSDN, MPP or Action Pack etc.

  • RE: Using Views

    Miles Neale (8/5/2014)


    ...

    Some may feel that there is additional work to build a stored procedure and the code to execute it, but the mitigated risk and flexibility is well worth...

  • RE: PowerShell Vulnerabilities

    Gazareth (8/5/2014)


    Gary Varga (8/5/2014)


    Gazareth (8/5/2014)


    Hmm, oversimplifying, but...

    Problem: Someone left the bank vault door unlocked. Robbers took loot & got away in cars.

    Solution: Ban cars!

    ...or vaults???

    No!!! Banks!!! 😛

    Roads! And bags with...

  • RE: PowerShell Vulnerabilities

    Gazareth (8/5/2014)


    Hmm, oversimplifying, but...

    Problem: Someone left the bank vault door unlocked. Robbers took loot & got away in cars.

    Solution: Ban cars!

    ...or vaults???

    No!!! Banks!!! 😛

  • RE: Getting It Right First Time. Almost?

    lshanahan (8/5/2014)


    ...I can imagine managers and directors saying, "What? You want another SQL Server license just for testing?"

    ...

    Sometimes Express editions can be useful for functional testing. Obviously, this is not...

  • RE: PowerShell Vulnerabilities

    I guess the problem is the age old battle of facility versus abuse. I remember a book on security that specified a secure computer as one with no networking, no...

  • RE: Getting It Right First Time. Almost?

    quackhandle1975 (8/5/2014)


    Possibly for many Devs/DBAs/etc the phrase "Test & Check-In" is more apt (ie Source/Version Control).

    Gary Varga (8/5/2014)


    I review each and every file change before check in.

    You'd be...

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