David.Poole (3/29/2016)

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I used to work for a web company that was proud of it's triple AAA usability designs. They allowed for visual impairments, cognitive difficulties, mobility disabilities etc.

There are...

Very good point to this. Additionally, I frequently get unexpected input simply by being careless on the keyboard and touching the touch pad. it makes some interesting and...

I've watched this discussion for a number of days now, and this morning the thought struck me that the solution probably lies, and the effort might be well spent, in...

Great article. Steve, especially for those who want to really reach an expert level of SQL use. Microsoft SQL Server has by far the best set of string manipulation...

100 hours? That is maybe somewhat more than taking a college level course, isn't it? I think 100 hours is a 'drop in the bucket' of what is...

I hear you on the report accuracy. In my last position there was a series of about a dozen reports in an online package that allowed remote dealers to...

Yes, the only data constraints used were pretty much those to prevent code aborts based on data type. Relational data validation and value range validations were definitely taboo.

I sincerely wish I could hypothesize that a script failed to run somewhere in the installation, but my personal experience is that most current database systems are forced to be...

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Well, people calling themselves "software engineers" or "computer engineers" are mostly (a least in the UK - those are not protected titles in the UK) completely unqualified - maybe...

Sorry, I think being a real 'data scientist' has very little to do with holding a post-graduate degree. It has to do with innate, intuitive, instinctive, empathetic understanding ...

The article makes a very good point. I already am paranoid about what data I make available online, and I will NEVER use cloud storage for anything, PERIOD.

Here's...

This is a very good point. To me it is unforgivable to allow process aborts. Better have a table for error rows and/or groups of rows. Then...

I'm not so sure. I think a 'data scientist' WOULD in fact be one who gets people the data they want and need. It sounds like you do...

No, Steve, I wasn't a data scientist, or any of those BS titles. I was a true programmer and SQL developer, the guy who actually made work the high-falutin'...

As usual, from my 42 years of experience, I have seen things such as this many times. The first thing you need to do is exactly what this process...