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...

Please hand your hat and whip at the...

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...

djackson 22568 (6/1/2016)

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Chris Wooding (6/1/2016)

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When my brother was at college, he was astonished by his friend's reaction to the statement "I'm just going for a tommy". Both parties understood this...

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...

Totally agree. One place of extreme usage suffered scalability issues down to their own system design...

CU#'s are identifiers. Identifiers should (must?) be unique.

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...

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.

I feel a bit deflated as I had already voted for this. I bet it was from an early suggestion from Jeff.

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...

Unbelievable, I was going to post the following:

Then I read the other posts; Jeff's "Looking...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/6/2017)

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Gary Varga (1/4/2017)

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Just because someone enjoys doing something doesn't mean they are any good at it.

I enjoy singing in my car. When alone. I can't...

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...

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...