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I have seen a lot of clients in the Enterprise space want to move to Linux in order to reduce costs.
Some want to stick with MS SQL Server but either...
January 11, 2017 at 3:49 am
Frank W Fulton Jr (1/10/2017)
...I do draw the line at monkey brains; I will not even try them, sorry just can’t do it.
Please hand your hat and whip at the...
January 10, 2017 at 6:00 pm
Overloads are inevitable, however, to do so deliberately in order to be "cute" is a negative for me. Asked for my opinion, I would have to admit that any sort...
January 10, 2017 at 5:11 pm
djackson 22568 (6/1/2016)
Chris Wooding (6/1/2016)
January 10, 2017 at 5:07 pm
For me the coffee needs to be black and the tea a mahogany colour (just show it the milk - don't pour!!!)
I worked somewhere where someone would stir the teas...
January 10, 2017 at 4:07 pm
David.Poole (1/10/2017)
...I find it hard to believe that most people will run into scalability issues.
Totally agree. One place of extreme usage suffered scalability issues down to their own system design...
January 10, 2017 at 9:25 am
CU#'s are identifiers. Identifiers should (must?) be unique.
January 10, 2017 at 7:17 am
I am a little surprised by this. About half a dozen years ago I wondered whether SQL Server was a on a slide away from mainstream. It was not a...
January 10, 2017 at 4:50 am
I still totally rate Bertrand Meyer's Object Oriented Software Construction (1988 if I recall correctly). Particularly the chapter (8?) based on his seminal paper defining Design by Contract.
January 9, 2017 at 12:09 pm
I feel a bit deflated as I had already voted for this. I bet it was from an early suggestion from Jeff.
January 9, 2017 at 1:21 am
It is worth reading some books again. I am currently rereading "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Coincidentally I have even just got off a call to a PM...
January 9, 2017 at 1:15 am
Unbelievable, I was going to post the following:
Looking forward to to it. One aspect of this project has already been a success: communication!!!
Then I read the other posts; Jeff's "Looking...
January 9, 2017 at 12:46 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/6/2017)
Gary Varga (1/4/2017)
I enjoy singing in my car. When alone. I can't...
January 7, 2017 at 6:10 am
Last year I decided that I would attempt to make at least one IT event. Planning has already succeeded as I have booked to attend SQLBits in Telford, England on...
January 6, 2017 at 6:23 am
It often surprises me how often the end users are upbeat when the development team feel like they have failed.
Developer: "It's got 137 bugs left!!!"
End user: "I can now focus...
January 5, 2017 at 6:34 am
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