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  • 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...

  • RE: Go Code

    manie (11/10/2016)


    Steve, I am sorry to say but I told you so in my (the) first post here. Some people are just plain rude and insulting. I, however, get your...

  • RE: Go Code

    This entire discussion takes me back to the days before many of you were even born, the days when COBOL (for you young sprouts that was Common Business Oriented Language)....

  • RE: Go Code

    David.Poole (11/10/2016)


    I would rather people took a course in change management.

    • What is the problem I am trying to solve?
    • How big is the problem?
    • What impact does the problem have?
    • Is the problem...

  • RE: Go Code

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/10/2016)


    skeleton567 (11/10/2016)


    Sure, and more people should drive 18-wheelers on the interstates. I think I'll go over the airport and volunteer to fly a load...

  • RE: Go Code

    Sure, and more people should drive 18-wheelers on the interstates. I think I'll go over the airport and volunteer to fly a load of folks to Chicago today, too.

    Having...

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