I have seen plenty of change in IT within enterprises since this editorial was first published. Yet no shrinking in IT departments. Mostly the same people with some changing roles.

I still agree with pretty much all that was said nearly three years ago. My summary is that everyone needs to be able to communicate and have a general understanding...

TomThomson (12/9/2016)

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It's crazy...

It is not just computing that can rely on these kind of metrics e.g. sales (number of sales in a period/value of sales in a period/average value of a sale),...

mjh 45389 (12/9/2016)

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I try to get things in writing but is usually fails as our senior management tend to respond to an email a few hours later by walking into...

No matter what support it will take some effort but I agree that with 3rd party (i.e. not Microsoft)...

Eric M Russell (12/8/2016)

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Regardless of whether we're interviewing for a DBA or a developer who will code SQL, one question I ask is:

"For the next 15 minutes, explain everything you...

hammackk (12/8/2016)

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...I'm not sure that there's a way to filter out people who are going to fail the test without filtering out people who are going to pass in ways...

I see:

more than:

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/13/2016)

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...software developers...

Eric M Russell (12/8/2016)

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...If an organization has 100 GB of sales data, then US$930/month is a reasonable price to pay for archival. I mean, sales data is revenue generating, that's...

Yet another feature that the pricing doesn't scale (down) well.

David and Stephanie have nailed it for me. There are many things that were once immediately known to me but have since been mentally filed away. Yet my ability to...

I have an advantage as an interviewer as I have full self-awareness that I am not hip.

hjp (12/8/2016)

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TomThomson (12/7/2016)

Quite apart from that, I believe it is possible to train someone to be ethical, provided one starts when they are very young, and I also believe that...

I just read about Grant's sins and, funnily enough, was discussing abuse of NOLOCK with a fellow SSC'er just this morning.

As for interviewing, for a C# developer role I was...