Eric: So things don't get fixed at the current job, it will be any different at the next??? Not really.

lol, the problems you see, they exist everywhere. People who are unhappy in their jobs tend to be unhappy, period. You are likely to have better results by doing your...

What you are saying is obvious, I understand it can be done, I still don't understand why you would want to...

I don't understand your example. If a diff is faulty then you don't have it.

Why on earth would it be ok to restore a txn log when you have a diff???

Test driven development is just another way of saying that requirements need to be known upfront. The real value of test driven development is when acceptance tests are known -...

Governance has to precede application development. The technique of persisting blobs and objects instead of relational data has always made my flesh crawl. Phil nails the problem.

if they are used...

What Dave said.

Lynn Pettis (9/14/2015)

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Describe what the procedure/script/trigger/function/whatever is expected to do, provide a history of changes and way they were made, you may even include some simple test code to run...

lol yeah. One of my zen tricks is error...

roger.plowman (9/14/2015)

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I struggle to...

DBAs tend to have a certain personality type, one aspect of which is the need to know the correct answer to *every **single** thing*. This attribute makes for a good...

Great essay, so true. Developers do a thing I call swarm. They see you with a problem and suddenly they are all standing around your desk, Did you try this,...

Many of you are missing the business point. The annual security refresher is for avoiding lawsuits by showing due diligence. It also makes it easy to fire people for noncompliance....

GoofyGuy (7/29/2015)

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Erm ... not sure if you're offering a critique of the state of civil liberties in the US or the UK. But in both nations, sister democracies, there is...