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  • Reply To: Data Modeling in a New World

    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...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Data Modeling in a New World

    crmitchell wrote:

    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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    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: The Developer Arguments for Stored Procedures

    Y.B. wrote:

    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...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Data Modeling in a New World

    Tom Uellner wrote:

    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...

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by skeleton567.

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Data Modeling in a New World

    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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    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: The Developer Arguments for Stored Procedures

    David.Poole wrote:

    I can tell you that if you migrate to a DB platform with no stored procs or equivalent your world becomes one of pain.

    I believe I began working with...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: The Developer Arguments for Stored Procedures

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    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...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: The Developer Arguments for Stored Procedures

    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...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Is 100% Security Possible?

    roger.plowman wrote:

    And yet we rush to the cloud, increasing our attack surface to an unimaginable degree.

    Second, NO ONE knows how security works. Or, more precisely, we have no idea how...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: The COVID-19 Impact

    MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

    but as I understand it there are only 9 confirmed victims in the UK... surely this is just panic

    I've been thinking the past few days that I don't fear...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: The Evolution of AI

    We must remember that AI is based on machine analysis of data, and that someone had to create the logic that is used.  That someone is going to have personal...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Data Orchestration

    Roger, while I in some ways am also against the massive collection and retention of data just because you can, I really don't expect the trend to change much, GDPR...

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    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Data Orchestration

    "I've been thinking that with SQL Server 2019 we will start to access data where it lives, not move it to another place we want it. To me, this is...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Back from My Sabbatical

    Steve, after seeing the picture, it makes me wonder why you left there...

    Oh, I see, you missed us all!

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Back from My Sabbatical

    I think Steve's shirts are great.  On my first programming job we were still wearing white shirts and ties.  How times change.

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

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