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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...

    Gaz

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  • 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...

    Gaz

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  • 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,...

    Gaz

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  • 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...

    Gaz

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  • 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...

    Gaz

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  • 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...

    Gaz

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  • 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...

    Gaz

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  • 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...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Getting It Right First Time. Almost?

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

    Gaz

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  • 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...

    Gaz

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  • 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...

    Gaz

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  • 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!!! 😛

    Gaz

    -- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!

  • 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...

    Gaz

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  • 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...

    Gaz

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  • 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...

    Gaz

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