call.copse wrote: "Orange one wasn't a criticism at all merely a descriptor."

Yeah, sure.

"But cheer up, you're likely to be fine, especially if no grandkids etc!"

Well, Call, I've 'gotcha' on that...

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call.copse wrote:I'm going to say from what I've seen of the orange one, the press are far too kind too him to be honest. Mainly in terms of giving him the...

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I'm going to say from what I've seen of the orange one, the press are far too kind too him to be honest. Mainly in terms of giving him...

In a different context, there used to be a take-off on a famous line that commented:  "The only thing worse than having cockroaches is keeping cockroaches".  Unfortunately I don't think...

Depending on AI is like listening to the news.  It is more opinion than fact.  It is by its very nature biased by the beliefs and desires of those who...

I don't know... if you consider that 100 hours is probably outside of your normal work hours and you spend 2 hours of the 100 every day on weekdays,...

"It's daunting to consider spending 100 hours across the next year on some technology, only to find it's not likely to help you get the job you want."

That may be,...

OK, some of you may not like my reasoning, and that's OK with me, but here goes:

Quoting from the KJV as my ultimate authority:

"So God created man in his own...

I'd suggest it would probably be better to store genetic phenotype rather than birth sex for medical purposes i.e. XX, XY which would correspond to birth sexes of female...

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Maybe the answer is much simpler...

Will it be the DBA or the Developer that gets woken up at 3:00am because the application is slow/not working?  That person can decide...

This is even more challenging in medical. If you are a blood lab and run a panel of tests, some of them greatly depend on the birth sex of...

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You all should be very thankful you are not siting in meetings with ME discussing this issue.

I'm currently working with data from an application that encompasses some thirty years, and...

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I believe I began working with...

I guess my only exception to what Rick stated above is that business logic is frequently better done on the database side of the house.  FKs, Defaults, Checks, and...

Well, I've been hearing this debate raging for many years now.  But just imagine the rage if MSFT announced that the next version of SQL Server would have no ability...