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  • Reply To: Labor Day 2022

    We've all heard that 'the more you give the more you get'.  Most of our friends are old and retired.  Our social group includes my wife, a bilateral amputee, some...

  • Reply To: Unlimited PTO

    I used all my sick days so I called in dead.

  • Reply To: What should I have done with this?

    Honestly, above the split it said something like 'Set of two', one of those Amazon things.  It was just funny it worked out that way.

  • Reply To: Unlimited PTO

    larry.blake wrote:

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    What I'd really like to see are companies that stop punishing people for not taking time off.  I've had more vacation just vanish because I had more on...

  • Reply To: Unlimited PTO

    I tried to make sure I am not repeating myself by commenting on this topic, but didn't see anything in the history at least for this article.  My feelings are...

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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...

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  • 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, 6 months ago by skeleton567.
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  • 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...

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