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  • Reply To: The Appliance of Science

    Just to throw in my curmudgeonly 2-cents worth: I would wager real money that three-fourths of Agile's real value comes from the daily stand-up (when they're done properly). That "simple"...

  • Reply To: Rogue Software Changes

    Maybe I'm just a tad cynical, but my first (and recurring) thought is that this is a classic demonstration of Test-Driven Development.

    Think about it. Has anybody looked to see if...

  • RE: Building Better Stored Procedures

    Steve, isn't it a tad ironic that you remind us that SQL is a set-based language, but your chosen example of a stored procedure runs counter to that philosophy.

  • RE: Bad Management

    Eric M Russell - Wednesday, October 28, 2015 3:26 PM

    There are plenty of challenges at all experience levels, just different sorts of...

  • RE: We Want Maturity, But Is It Fun?

    gordon.feeney - Tuesday, December 23, 2014 3:45 AM

    And more directors of this-that-and-the-other whose titles suggested they had been given carte blanche...

  • RE: You Need Offline Backups

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Wednesday, February 20, 2019 2:36 PM

    If that's true, then how could they lose more than a day or...

  • RE: You Need Offline Backups

    Steve, backup strategy is one area where defense in depth and breadth is relatively inexpensive insurance which more than pays for itself whenever it's actually needed.
    Also  worth remembering is...

  • RE: What do you do when you make a mistake?

    Beatrix Kiddo - Thursday, July 13, 2017 6:20 AM

    I own up straight away. There was one time I briefly thought I'd taken...

  • RE: What do you do when you make a mistake?

    Rod at work - Thursday, July 13, 2017 10:24 AM

    hakim.ali - Thursday, July 13, 2017 9:36 AM

  • RE: What do you do when you make a mistake?

    tcronin 95651 - Thursday, July 13, 2017 7:56 AM

    Smart people learn from mistakes, arrogant people ignore mistakes and make them again

    And smart arrogant people...

  • RE: What do you do when you make a mistake?

    I always tell folks that recognizing your own mistakes is important because it doesn't really  count as a mistake if you spot and fix your own before anybody else notices.

  • RE: An Inconceivable Scale

    xsevensinzx (12/9/2015)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/9/2015)


    william-700725 (12/9/2015)


    I would suggest that the growth in the volume of data stored does not reflect a growth in actual information.

    If you look,...

  • RE: An Inconceivable Scale

    Yet Another DBA (12/10/2015)


    I thought that the problem with quantum storage is that you only know if it is there is when you look for it. :unsure:

    I believe you're confusing...

  • RE: An Inconceivable Scale

    Eric M Russell (12/9/2015)


    Are our laws and contracts even enforcable in a parallel universe?

    If it's a parallel universe, then there would be no intersection, right? Ergo, with no way for...

  • RE: An Inconceivable Scale

    robert.sterbal 56890 (12/9/2015)


    The key measure is some expected economic value you hope to derive. Right now we are keeping too little data still.

    I doubt that.

    I've lost count of how many...

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