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  • 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...

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

    December 23, 2016 at 6:05 am

    #1919509

  • 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...

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

    December 21, 2016 at 11:16 am

    #1919208

  • 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. ...

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

    December 20, 2016 at 7:32 am

    #1918913

  • 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...

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

    December 20, 2016 at 6:59 am

    #1918902

  • 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...

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

    December 19, 2016 at 11:35 pm

    #1918803

  • 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...

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

    December 7, 2016 at 1:07 pm

    #1916619

  • 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...

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

    December 6, 2016 at 7:10 pm

    #1916398

  • 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...

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

    December 6, 2016 at 11:49 am

    #1916326

  • 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...

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

    December 6, 2016 at 10:20 am

    #1916303

  • 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...

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

    December 6, 2016 at 10:06 am

    #1916296

  • 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...

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

    December 6, 2016 at 9:51 am

    #1916291

  • 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...

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

    December 6, 2016 at 3:57 am

    #1916174

  • 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...

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

    November 11, 2016 at 6:33 pm

    #1912018

  • 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...

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

    November 11, 2016 at 8:50 am

    #1911932

  • 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...

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

    November 11, 2016 at 7:58 am

    #1911913

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