Thank you, Grant. I really appreciate a reason being given! Some of these things don't apply to my or my organization (I work for a large state government department in...

Excellent questions and topic, Ryan. I'll answer your questions and add a topic of my own.

I've been in my current position longer than I thought I would be. One of...

Thank you, Steve. I'll pass those links along to my DBAs

That could be, Jeff, I don't know. I've never written a SSIS package and I have idea how to get started at it. Anyway, the vendor may have done that,...

Chris Wooding, I really hear you about your #1. WOW, is that a huge challenge!!

Good points, Ryan. And I'll say it's a bit of a stinging indictment. On Friday I was supposed to be working on some SQL scripts to manage some data in...

David, I'll answer your last question, first. The impact of my not rewriting the app are profound. One horrible habit that the developers and managers have done over many years,...

That is really awesome, Jeff! In fact, that's outstanding. In my environment we do unit testing and UAT, and that's about it. We don't have the success rate that you've...

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Steve, I've got a question for you about what you said, concerning what workloads might be better suited for a cloud environment. You said:

If you have a variable or growing...

Unit tests do not require production size databases, although load tests do and are important as well, once all the unit and integration tests are complete.

Code coverage is important,...

When Agile is used for rapid feedback with responsive customers it can be an effective way to flush out system requirements.  I've more often seen Agile used as cover...

Steve, I don't completely agree with you. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, however I see this as an iterative process. One gets the requirements from the customer, then writes...

Thank you very much for this article, Steve. One of my responsibilities is administering our GitHub Enterprise. Getting to this point was a long and arduous task, but I'm glad...

Steve, I don't completely agree with you. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, however I see this as an iterative process. One gets the requirements from the customer, then writes the app...

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• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 months ago by Rod at work.

Good question. Authorized users in our...