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  • RE: Top Talent Leaves

    Craig-315134 (2/10/2014)


    ...but the Darwinistic nature of capitalism sooner or later weeds out the bad ones.

    Oh, I wish I found that to be the case!!!

  • RE: The Data Platform Vision

    Even if everything ends up in the cloud it would not happen for a considerable amount of time. Rushing everyone to a future that may not occur and even if...

  • RE: Top Talent Leaves

    I think having teams of people with a mixture of longevity gives a company the best of both worlds: a breadth of industry experience and deep company experience. A key...

  • RE: Performance Tuning Through Panic

    Another key issue is "perceived performance". I have worked on a number of systems when the performance has been drastically improved over the original system, however, the users disagree. This...

  • RE: Oddball Interview Questions

    Abu Dina (2/7/2014)


    Had an interview on Monday morning which I thought went quite well until the last two questions:

    1) Where do you see yourself in 5 years time?

    2) Your salary...

  • RE: Oddball Interview Questions

    call.copse (2/7/2014)


    ...I think I have slightly jokingly asked whether candidates prefer Apple or Android devices - without a preference really on my part, but it does indicate whether they value...

  • RE: The Cloud

    Craig-315134 (2/6/2014)


    O.... APIs, Web services and integration buses will become the order of the day...

    Have become the order of the day from where I sit. For a good number of...

  • RE: The Cloud

    David.Poole (2/6/2014)


    ...So the NSA watches communications (and probably GCHQ in Britain). What horrendous sin-bin task that must be. Imagine having to read every email dictated by Dilbert's boss?...

  • RE: Oddball Interview Questions

    I haven't been asked any questions like these, or at least not that I can remember. I am in the school of thought that I would not look for the...

  • RE: The Cloud

    Grant Fritchey (2/6/2014)


    EXACTLY!

    It's going to be a hybridized world, partially hosted locally, partially externally, and partially through various services. It's happening right now and shows every sign of accelerating. I...

  • RE: The Cloud

    Sean Redmond (2/6/2014)


    I'm not a fan of the Cloud.

    Ever since Edward Snowden confirmed my suspicions that the NSA and other spy agencies are trawling and capturing as much data as...

  • RE: The Cloud

    Jeff Moden (2/5/2014)


    I wonder when the terms "Internet" and "Cloud" would eventually come to mean the same thing to many people.

    ...

    Much like people using "Web" and "Internet" interchangeably.

  • RE: Byte Me: Data Mining

    I like a good laugh and did enjoy this but mainly I am here for SQL Server knowledge and experience (both receiving and imparting).

    I hope that is not a replacement...

  • RE: Big Data Comes to Hiring

    zerko (2/4/2014)


    ...

    While I have no empirical data to back up any conclusions, my experience of some years spent driving between work-sites with colleagues (and observing other drivers) led me to...

  • RE: Adding to SQL Server

    Jeff Moden (2/1/2014)


    ...

    And my biggest peeves of all... how about a built in Tally Table function that operates at machine language speeds or a decent built in split function? ...

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