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  • Reply To: Changing Hardware

    Banem.. you are lucky, I grew up on Zilog Z80, 6800 and 8502 assembly with 8K of RAM in assembly (Hex coding). when they let me loose on turbo pascal...

  • Reply To: Changing Hardware

    With how bad  some of our existing legacy code base is, fresh hardware wouldn't make a dent in it.

    I would love to be in the utopia where the only thing...

  • Reply To: Is It Worth Writing Unit Tests?

    What I'm really getting at is that a lot of Developers that I've worked with at other companies think that they don't need to test their own code as they...

  • Reply To: Changing Hardware

    rsnow wrote:

    What? People use hardware machines in production? We need to keep the underlying hardware on compatible chipsets so that we can move virtual machines around.

    So true …  but some...

  • Reply To: Changing Hardware

    Given that most medium to large companies predominantly use HP... you don't have much of a choice.

    My antique home PC is an AMD Athalon 3400 and it has served me...

  • Reply To: DR restore test issue

    Hi prettsons

    that's cool info for anyone facing the same issue. I did all of those things but at checkdb stage I got the error message I mentioned, as I posted..

    in...

  • Reply To: DR restore test issue

    happy to. Give me a day or 2 and it will be in your inbox ready for you to edit. 🙂

     

  • Reply To: DR restore test issue

    yeah... that was my first approach

    It actually turns out that it was a memory issue. (it was quite a big database, so it took quite a while to go through...

  • Reply To: DR restore test issue

    just a normal backup database->restore database scenario

    I'm going to try dropping the allocated memory on the target server and see if the issue is "not enough free memory to create...

  • Reply To: Slower is Faster

    David.Poole wrote:

      The theory of constraints says that there is ONE key constraint at any one time.  If your work addresses this constraint then another will emerge and it won't...

  • Reply To: Slower is Faster

    David Burrows wrote:

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    It worked out well because, when people ask me why their code had performance issues, I could tell them, "Well, if you had used the fn Tally function...

  • Reply To: Slower is Faster

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

    while it's slightly off topic, I worked with a  team that mixed the V model (kinda like waterfall) and agile.. it had an unfortunate nickname of "vagile"

    ...

  • Reply To: Slower is Faster

    Lol

    I work for a company that was founded in 1851.  our practices are built on fax machines. (seriously, at one point I dreamt that our DR scenario revolved around faxing...

  • Reply To: Slower is Faster

    while it's slightly off topic,

    I worked with a  team that mixed the V model (kinda like waterfall) and agile.. it had an unfortunate nickname of "vagile"

    but I do agree with...

  • Reply To: Slower is Faster

    Herb (and anyone interested) - I highly recommend reading a book called "the phoenix project"

    it details the story of and IT engineer in an engineering company, trying to get things...

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