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  • Reply To: What's Your Approach?

    Rod at work wrote:

    I don't know what that quality is, but I sure would like to know.

    Rod, it sounds like you have it already!

     

  • Reply To: What's Your Approach?

    Several times I recall that being the CUD type paid off big-time:

    1968  Monday:  visited a friend at his work, saw a computer for the first time in my life.  He...

  • Reply To: When Is Technology Good Enough?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    David.Poole wrote:

    Perhaps the other thing we should consider is recruitment and retention of staff.

    How do you recruit someone to maintain old tech?

    ...

    Definitely a problem these days. Had to get...

  • Reply To: When Is Technology Good Enough?

    Well, I think it depends on exactly which technology and your priorities.  I just turned in my iphone 4 a year ago for a Moto G.  The Moto G has...

  • Reply To: How Often Do You Update During Issues?

    Audionova wrote:

    "My concern, however, was that multiple times they noted they would post updates soon, but there were some pretty good gaps in the status messages. While I liked a...

  • Reply To: Query Tuning, Why Bother?

    Zidar wrote:

    One more small thing: if we are dealing with poor database design, sometimes neither tuning nor hardware helps.

    Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do...

  • Reply To: SQL Standard Confusion

    Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:

    Adding other lacks of standards such as GQL etc. makes this discussion even more "interesting" (in an utterly English meaning of the word) 😎

    Eirikur, great point.  As with all...

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by skeleton567.
  • Reply To: SQL Standard Confusion

    Maybe we need to consider WHY the languages were confused at the Tower of Babel.  Seems to me that the people were becoming egotistical in thinking they could build a...

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by skeleton567.
    • This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by skeleton567.
  • Reply To: Query Tuning, Why Bother?

    Virshu wrote:

    Our C# developers (who know just enough SQL to be dangerous) write code using Entity Framework and I have trust that Microsoft will generate good SQL. So far so...

  • Reply To: Digging into an AI Algorithm

    In terms of AI for medical purposes, the recent progress is astounding and we can be proud that we have participated in the progress.  Last evening I had the privilege...

  • Reply To: How Often Do You Update During Issues?

    How often do you update?  I think it depends on your role in the situation.  I spent 42 years in IT including 11 years as manager of an installation so...

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by skeleton567.
  • Reply To: Share Your Mistakes

    Well, here we go again.  Over a few days I spent about three hours attempting to set up a new Chromecast device on a second tv.  Kept getting an error...

  • Reply To: Query Tuning, Why Bother?

    LittleMissSQL wrote:

    In my experience people don't care about this, until they really care about it.  Organisations are happy for pretty much anyone to write stored procs, but when their application...

  • Reply To: Query Tuning, Why Bother?

    James.georgitis wrote:

    I keep learning because when stuff finally breaks at 3am because a new release 2 sprints ago competes with this release… fewer and Fewer of us know SQL well...

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by skeleton567.
  • Reply To: Query Tuning, Why Bother?

    Why bother?  Well, maybe first of all, it's this thing inside me that makes me want to do it better and faster with less code.  Maybe it's because we all...

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