simon.crick (9/25/2013)

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...I believe technology also has a role to play in the prevalence of bugs in modern software...modern languages like C# with lots of "advanced" programming concepts suffer from way...

What is the other simple rule to get eliminate of the rest of the defects?...

All this stipulation regarding correctness and yet most systems are developed in 3GLs which cannot be proved. Functional languages can but not 3GLs.

Also the HUGE ASSUMPTION is that the requirements...

paul.knibbs (9/25/2013)

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...It doesn't help that SQL, as a language, isn't really well designed for debugging--it's one of the few languages I've used where I find it faster to just rewrite...

Everything comes out of the woodwork once someone has left e.g. I didn't even manage to type this post without being interrupted because of an issue down to (but not...

L' Eomot Inversé (9/10/2013)

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Gary Varga (9/10/2013)

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JLMayes (9/10/2013)

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As an outsider (non-DBA), I can say that my experience over the past 20 years has been that DBAs and the DBA world is...

I don't think I can take any credit but I'll go with the community opinion 😉

In my experience automation causes one of three things:

a) enabler for outsourcing

b) release of staff to higher value tasks

c) increased workload managed by unchanged level of existing workforce.

I worked for a client that believe that repeatedly stated that their database is the biggest SQL Server installation in Europe.

It isn't.

Unfortunately it lead them to believe that they were...

I would like to see this an open era of collaboration and discussion. My biggest fear is that there are a good number of people who are not after a...

CI is essential in modern software development. It is completely independent of CD in that you can get the benefits of CI without CD. Also CD doesn't necessarily mean that...

JLMayes (9/10/2013)

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As an outsider (non-DBA), I can say that my experience over the past 20 years has been that DBAs and the DBA world is as close to a pure...

Read the editorial. Read a few of the posts. Seems that simply we are, as a collective, astounded at the attitude of the minority.

As for support groups, I would say...

Miles Neale (8/19/2013)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (8/19/2013)

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Miles Neale (8/19/2013)

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Hi Steve,

I was out last week and came late to the game but needed to add something. ...

I agree with what I think the general consensus is: the time when this was acceptable as a flaw due to lack of knowledge and education has passed.