At previous employers I worked in Oracle and we used the "Wrap" function to obfuscate (love that word) the code. "Wrap"ped code was only readable by the Oracle runtime engine,...

Great insight jcrawf02

And now for something completely different ...

What version of Risk did you use in the picture? Must be one of those new-fangled ones. Showing my age I will...

GDI, at the risk of sounding ignorant, which I am, what do you think would have been a better title? Are you thinking of another storage medium? (Just questions, not...

Your right Steve, "I'd hope that many more would stop for a minute and realize", but we do not live in a stop and think/realize world. Just look at the...

I'm a lover, not a fighter. 🙂 Well, not really, but since Jacko is on the come back trail (ack, ack, thppbt) the phrase came to mind.

just because people are all in the same room and nodding their heads nicely doesn't mean they are working together. 🙂

Wow, Peter, I don't think JJ B deserved the intensity, you do make some valid points however.

JJ B, It is possible for a data base to fall out of...

Tony, great thought provoking article (as we have already seen)

What we really need to define is "traditionalist". A "traditionalist" developer (read mainframer) built everything from a silo perspective. Address the...

Leslieo (2/19/2009)

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Regarding grammatical/spelling errors: Steve's likability quotient is high, he writes with enthusiasm about things he believes in or cares about and he's believable. That might be a reason I...

.. and now for a thought completely different .. (sorry if my grammar is bad 🙂 )

I am a well paid consultant [is that redundant?], but I regularly make coffee....

Yes. That is the jist of what I hope to do. I was hoping to do it outside stored procedures. Thanks for the tip.

Steve,

Sorry I am so far behind on my reading, but the t-shirt question is a good tie-in (no pun intended, unfortunately) for another question. Have you ever fixed the water...

[people multitasking] I think it is disgusting to have a person I am physically present with carrying on a remote conversation with someone or thing while I am talking to...

I think combining the version has merit. Yes, people need to specify what version they are using but is that really that big a deal? I have dealt with that...

Have you considered combining your records? Instead of 1 record for every hour in a day, and one record for the every day, and one record for every month, etc....