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  • RE: Null Defaults

    Mark Dalley - Friday, March 3, 2017 3:35 AM

    Terje Hermanseter - Friday, March 3, 2017 2:51 AM

  • RE: CPU Spikes Caused by Periodic Scheduled Jobs

    crmitchell (12/23/2016)


    skeleton567 (12/21/2016)


    skipping a minute won't hurt a thing, as long as you don't tell anybody.

    Until that one occasion where it does matter. As Murphy and Sod will cheerfully...

  • RE: CPU Spikes Caused by Periodic Scheduled Jobs

    gfish@teamnorthwoods.com (12/21/2016)


    Let me suggest a much simpler way of avoiding the CPU spike caused by running multiple jobs at once. Simply combine them into one job, with the contents of...

  • RE: CPU Spikes Caused by Periodic Scheduled Jobs

    skeleton567 (12/20/2016)


    Igor Micev (12/20/2016)


    skeleton567 (12/19/2016)


    Two things are going to cause CPU spikes by scheduled jobs:

    1. Poor design that causes a requirement that a job be run too frequently.

    2. ...

  • RE: CPU Spikes Caused by Periodic Scheduled Jobs

    Igor Micev (12/20/2016)


    skeleton567 (12/19/2016)


    Two things are going to cause CPU spikes by scheduled jobs:

    1. Poor design that causes a requirement that a job be run too frequently.

    2. Delusions...

  • RE: CPU Spikes Caused by Periodic Scheduled Jobs

    Two things are going to cause CPU spikes by scheduled jobs:

    1. Poor design that causes a requirement that a job be run too frequently.

    2. Delusions that the function...

  • RE: What do you do when you inherit a mess at work?

    Wingenious (12/7/2016)


    If we were all deeply pessimistic about redeveloping software then we might still be using VisiCalc.

    Sure, redeveloping software involves costs and risks, but so does running a business on...

  • RE: What do you do when you inherit a mess at work?

    Wingenious (12/6/2016)


    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...

  • RE: What do you do when you inherit a mess at work?

    Iwas Bornready (12/6/2016)


    I worked with a programmer once who would run across some code that he thought should be optimized, written better. So he would modify the code. Half the...

  • RE: What do you do when you inherit a mess at work?

    TD-238967 (12/6/2016)


    You should see the "forest" instead of the "tree". Think first, code later then you can have the best solution for your project. There so many best...

  • RE: What do you do when you inherit a mess at work?

    Brian J. Parker (12/6/2016)


    There are, as you and several commenters note, a lot of factors; I wouldn't say that there was a universal best approach.

    Generally, what I've done is introduce...

  • RE: What do you do when you inherit a mess at work?

    dhsweg (12/6/2016)


    I generally opt for the 'scrap and start over' approach. Building on a poor foundation is not a good practice, and if I must dig all the way...

  • RE: What do you do when you inherit a mess at work?

    Early in my career I found myself in a situation, as a new IT manager for a company that had already hired a consulting company to begin design of their...

  • RE: Go Code

    David.Poole (11/11/2016)


    Programmable toilet? That gives a whole new connotation to stack dump

    Love your comment above.

    On a serious note regarding Go Code, during the course of my various jobs in...

  • RE: Go Code

    Eric M Russell (11/11/2016)


    Despite working in IT as both a software developer and database administrator, I'm not a big fan of consumer gadgets or other technology that involves a lot...

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