WOW, very interesting article, Steve! I've had the opportunity of interviewing several candidates over the years. We've used a variety of techniques. Sometimes, depending upon where we worked, your hands...

Tom, you make good points. I think I'm more in agreement with you that a certification body would be more appropriate than insisting upon just a CS degree and only...

Wingenious (12/6/2016)

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I would run out of fingers if I tried to count the number of times I have inherited a database mess with a new job. The new employer always...

Good question, Ben. I've seen only 2 options taken, you passive response and systematic. From my experience its been a combination of whose involved (developers, DBA, managers, customers, stack holders)...

Something I've been thinking about concerning a suggestion that Uncle Bob made, has me thinking since I first read the article some days ago. He bemoaned the fact that many...

Good article, Gary. I learned very early in my career the importance of training, when I lost a job opportunity because I wasn't skilled at the new job. Since then...

jasona.work (12/1/2016)

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Rod at work (12/1/2016)

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But, you still have to consider, WHY would an employer hire someone from such an organization? The "image" of having a "board certified" programmer?...

No, it's not. It connects to the database where the data is that it queries against. However, the next steps, upon failure, is to also run the mail stored proc...

I hope what you said in this article comes true. Been using Pluralsight to learn new skills. So far, nothing.

jasona.work (12/1/2016)

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But, you still have to consider, WHY would an employer hire someone from such an organization? The "image" of having a "board certified" programmer? Would that be...

David.Poole (11/30/2016)

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What I'd like to see is a framework to support whistle blowers.

By all means insist on evidence but whistle blowers need protection. Most companies have a whistle blower...

Oh WOW, Steve, have you brought up a big topic! I'm sure we all have something to say about this.

First I'd like to mention that the Association for Computing Machinery...

David.Poole (11/28/2016)

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What puzzles me is that developers aren't much better at data modelling. Surely you have to be pretty good to come up with a decent object model in...

Very good article, Steve. The last sentence of your article states, "Hoping that the average DBA or C# developer can just 'pick up some tips' is a recipe for project...

Speaking as one who is the...