Well, I guess I did it backwards. After only a few years in IT in three separate jobs I moved to become manager of a small IT shop which...

Well, I haven't used a cursor in years. Of course, I've been retired for a number of years too. :-). Anyway, I'm not sure I would use...

When I started writing code as far back as 1969, the accepted method was to add 5 to one place to the right of the desired result length and then...

Eric Mamet (4/25/2015)

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I just saw a (new?) book entitled "Mastering SQL Server 2014 Data Mining"...

Following Microsoft BI developments, I was under the impression that "on Premise" SQL Server data...

This article brings up a topic which I thought about for a number of years. We get into our work and find the things that we really enjoy and...

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 ...