I am probably the HR guy that Steve mentioned in his article. I could write a book on this subject, but I will try to keep it short. ...

Vijay, I have been a tech lead, director, and CIO off and on for the last 15 years. I consider myself a "business application developer", which is different from...

Once again, "comfortable with" is a business issue with complexities that some people seem not to fully appreciate....

1. Many studies have proven that communal settings improve software development productivity. Get keyed on 'Agile'.

2. Put on your iPod headphones and you can be in a different world.

3....

Steve Jones - Editor (12/18/2008)

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I think customers rarely know what they need, or even they want. They have some vague idea, but they don't really think it through. It's important...

Jeff Moden (12/17/2008)

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Ooooohhhh, I so disagree with that... the customer almost never includes performance and scalability requirements in any quantifiable manner... but they do get awfully ticked when it isn't...

And when you get to SSChampion, you get a free toaster!

I wish these were online somewhere, or even better if the point value would pop up in a tooltip when...

Thanks!

Lynn Pettis (12/17/2008)

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The .NET CLR was designed to work with any language, unfortunately SSIS and SSRS weren't written that way pre SQL 2008. In SQL Server 2005 and earlier,...

Jack Corbett (12/17/2008)

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It also depends on what you are doing with the language as well. As I said in my original post, if you are using SSRS or SSIS...

Lynn Pettis (12/17/2008)

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Not sure. I did a lot of COBOL programming at my previous employer and I think moving to an OO environment where I could continue to use...

There are no technical reasons to choose one language over...

Lynn Pettis (12/17/2008)

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Actually, they have made this COBOL pretty much OO. I have been looking at the web site, and it looks like there is a lot of effort...

That is an excellent point and it should be evaluated. If you...

If you made your pick for good business and professional reasons, your pick would be incorrect.

Have a great day!