Kim Crosser (7/25/2016)

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“Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step...

Eric M Russell (7/25/2016)

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When I'm writing a new SQL query, I'll mockup 10x the amount of data currently in production for the subset of tables that are relevent to query,...

tabinsc (7/25/2016)

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Since most of my SQL coding is set-based (1 query operation per procedure), unit testing seems pointless since there is only one unit. I do use SQLTest for...

Tom Fischer (7/25/2016)

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Maybe we need to ask the question, 'What justifies unit tests in practice?' And I’d recommend avoiding answers of the 'because you should' ilk because they clearly haven’t...

xsevensinzx (7/24/2016)

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I was thinking about porting the unittest module from Python to SQL to see if it could be benefitial. Here is a core example of how easy it is...

Glad you liked it.

I tend to write 3-4 on a topic and schedule them weeks apart, so you will see similar ones over time.

xsevensinzx (7/25/2016)

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Jeff Moden (7/24/2016)

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The definition is, of course, very well defined...

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=definition+of+real+time

... and anyone that thinks or says...

Jeff Moden (7/24/2016)

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The definition is, of course, very well defined...

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=definition+of+real+time

... and anyone that thinks or says otherwise...

Stephanie Giovannini (7/21/2016)

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I don't understand why code re-writes cause so much fear, both among developers and management. It's the code equivalent of cleaning out the basement by emptying it, scrubbing...

Jeff Moden (7/21/2016)

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I can't agree that the computer math was any different than regular math in this case. The computer math was spot on. += is an assignment...

Trade the Yankees lineup for the Cubs

:hehe:

I thought this was interesting as I hadn't ever considered the user of multiple items on the right side of the assignment.

Agree there are things to worry about. But plenty of those companies were hacked without being the cloud. The cloud in and of itself, isn't necessarily less secure for companies.

Y.B. (7/20/2016)

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I got a PM from an OP saying simply 'douche bag'. LOL

Granted, I'm having a really bad day and could have responded better...on the other hand at least...

Better? Granted exec to the role for procs.