I've seen 2 practices; using so called "magic numbers" or using nulls. When I first went to work at my previous job, I had very little experience with any SQL...

Man, Steve, you covered a lot with this article. I want to address just one thing you mentioned; that's getting people, especially users, to test changes. In my experience that...

This topic interests me a good deal, but sometimes I've no idea at all how it can be applied. At least to some software I'm working on. First example, I'm...

This sounds like it would be fun and worth it. And I can't go. :crying:

Interesting article. I've seen stick and carrot approach for motivating behavior, both personally and professionally. Using a stick is often easier to see. I do think using a carrot for...