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  • RE: Less and Less Visual

    charles.green (6/26/2014)


    Several have commented that the current trend seems to be toward text with the feeling that text is more accurate. I think that the opposite is true, text...

  • RE: Less and Less Visual

    There does seem to be a loss in the community (generalising here so many of you will be exceptions!!!) of using visual tools for anything but documentation. I agree that...

  • RE: But, but, but, my data is clean!

    Eric M Russell (6/24/2014)


    Greg A Goss (6/24/2014)


    andrew gothard (6/23/2014)


    VarChar "date" columns.

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Andrew ANGRY, Andrew SMASH!

    /raises hand

    I second that "AAAAAARRRGH". I'm responsible for maintaining a web...

  • RE: But, but, but, my data is clean!

    Eric M Russell (6/23/2014)


    Often times developers are reluctant to hard code domain or relational constraints, because there are no written specifications formally defining what should be considered valid. How data...

  • RE: But, but, but, my data is clean!

    GilaMonster (6/23/2014)


    andrew gothard (6/23/2014)


    GilaMonster (6/21/2014)


    I love arguing this one with devs, so much 'agile' nonsense sometimes. 😀 "Creating validation in the database is a violation of the DRY principal"

    The...

  • RE: Bad Meetings or Meeting Badly

    I found that both videos highlighted issues with conference calls. Tardiness ruins meetings. As does lack of both discipline and courtesy.

  • RE: Never Stop Learning

    Continuous learning is essential. People should not be discouraged if their level of effort or amount of time given to it is not as much as others. Everyone has to...

  • RE: Bad Meetings or Meeting Badly

    I've been in a number of meetings where I and/or others have "called" it only for a "time vampire" to take 40 minutes to agree that the meeting needs preparing...

  • RE: Bad Meetings or Meeting Badly

    Eric M Russell (6/23/2014)


    The bulk of all meetings should be the dial in conference call type. Those who want to crowd out the conversation and debate some narrow topic are...

  • RE: Developers vs. DBAs

    andrew gothard (6/23/2014)


    Gary Varga (6/12/2014)


    My point is that, bearing in mind the editorial, the whole way of thinking is as flawed as the value of the number of legs as...

  • RE: Bad Meetings or Meeting Badly

    I think that agendas, minutes and action points are a completely different topic albeit totally related. Nothing worse than a pointless meeting that no one agrees what was accepted and...

  • RE: Bad Meetings or Meeting Badly

    I totally agree with Richard. Focussed meetings allow for a targeted set of participants and are usually shorter. Meetings are what are required when face to face information exchange is...

  • RE: Unwelcome posts on our forums

    I appreciate all your efforts in this. The combination of luck and your efforts mean that it has been a while since I've seen anything that could constitute SPAM, mad...

  • RE: Go to a User Group

    chrisn-585491 (6/19/2014)


    I have been attending user groups on and off for years... Where is the beer?

    We have beer, (on tap), where we meet. But most people decline since there...

  • RE: Go to a User Group

    Everything was changed by the Internet. You could tap in to anyone who posting demonstrating that they could do something (albeit sometimes they couldn't). I consider myself lucky to have...

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