It is really sad but "get it in writing" has saved me a good number of times when people have claimed that they DIDN'T say what they actually did.

I have two favourite experiences of this type of choice:

1) Development team checked everything in and left.

I was called to get a system developed for my client's client both to...

The Irish drink Guinness.

The British drink...pretty much whatever is put in front of them before collapsing. Even if it is a...

Just messing Eric. Just messing. 😉

David.Poole (12/5/2016)

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Gary Varga (12/5/2016)

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David.Poole (12/5/2016)

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Our CIO stood up and said that our delivery targets were ambitious and have very little slack in them to investigate the best ways of doing...

Eric M Russell (12/5/2016)

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corey lawson (12/2/2016)

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Hmm... like rebuilding an accidentally dropped table or managing to recover horked data in prod while using elevated permissions there and not telling anyone I...

I wrote:

I guess Work/Life might actually be (Work/Training)/(Life/Learning) balance but that doesn't quite...

I once had that. :crying:

Maybe he was. :laugh:

What were you on when you thought that? 😛

Some people copyright their articles/blog posts but explicitly specify that the code is free to use. This is a reasonable case where the author is trying to educate but attempting...

David.Poole (12/2/2016)

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I think I would push for the DDL commands to be part of the ANSI SQL Standard before setting them up in SQL Server.

I think there should be a...

I try to avoid any kind of stimulants or depressants when coding. If possible I listen to music, the more familiar the better, to tune out of everything but the...

David.Poole (12/5/2016)

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Our CIO stood up and said that our delivery targets were ambitious and have very little slack in them to investigate the best ways of doing things. He then...

djessopeng (12/5/2016)

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Impending retirement is no excuse! Keeping up to date is a great way to keep an active mind and also keeps open the possibility of some part time work....