It's not unique to IT, but it does seem to be a bit more acute there, likely...

A cautionary real-world tale:

Our company uses a mission critical system from a vendor. I'm not sure of the exact architecture, but in general there is a production database that...

Lynn Pettis (12/2/2013)

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Why are companies so eager to use new technologies to reach customers but unwilling to use these same technologies to enhance their work force. Oh, and then...

Todd Townley (12/3/2013)

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Most interestingly, they also stated that, regardless of the digital storage, all records also had to be stored in a "human-readable" form - micro card or microfiche or...

I think this snippet from the MongoDB article sums it up nicely:

This was ultimately a communication problem rather than a technical problem. If these conversations had happened sooner, if we...

I agree with John, the IT field (considered as a whole) has specialized and while it makes moving into new roles more difficult, having more positions available for narrower roles...

The key to learning - regardless of subject - is really repetition and association. Time is mostly incidental. Everybody has different learning styles, but it all essentially boils...

Interesting reading this topic 4 years on now.

I found Steve's comments that most of his instances pretty much used the same features of SqlServer interesting. In the same vein,...

(In case someone else stumbles across this)

I believe one fundamental difference (if I'm reading BOL right - if not, someone please correct this) is that XACT_STATE can detect uncommittable transactions...

Haven't followed baseball much recently, but couldn't help seeing all the headlines over the Game 3 ending.

My $0.02: The BoSox catcher should have simply held the ball after making...

vahid.arr (10/24/2013)

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i know that.i don know how create relation between them.for example i put ForeignID(ID of RampID or PreRampID) and TableName(Ramp or PreRamp Table) in Line and or i...

Add one more "accidental-because-I-can-create-nifty-databases-sorta-kinda-DBA" here.

I began playing with PCs in the 8-bit days, later on managed to create a useful application in Access for a private social service agency I...

I see Steve's point, but I honestly learn more from forums like this than most blogs. Easier to find stuff here, too.

From the article:

When I read this I thought of a quote a...

Gary Varga (10/21/2013)

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lshanahan (10/21/2013)

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...To little old me over here in the cheap seats of the peanut gallery, it seems more of an architecture issue than a design pattern per se...