This is interesting

I'm probably in the "I don't think Excel is the problem" camp. Excel does far more good than harm and its only the fact that it is often...

Personally while I would expect excellent spelling and grammar from items written for articles and blogs I am not so critical of spelling mistakes in places like forums. Spelling mistakes...

The only unusual thing that I like to have is a home made Project/CRM software that I put together just for myself. It holds all my contacts and a list...

Absolutely all Developers should have a clear understanding of primary and foreign keys and the idea of relationships between tables and how the differences between different query types. ( I...

Another vote for having the developers and DBAs to be working side by side in the same team.

So divisional teams based around products with a single manager for both. Functional...

Yes and No

While I do think you should have a walled off area I am strongly of the opinion that every organsation should have a fully open pool database /...

Programming is one of the few disciplines were the ability of the individual can outweigh the ability of an army of individuals.

As long as that individual is not down right...

This is an excellent topic. I do a bit of work for a timing company. I actually helped time the Haddington Sprint Triathlon on Sunday last weekend. We can time...

Yes and I keep reading articles...

Oh boy - flat earthers still exist.

Investors have little time for appointing mavericks and even if a former owner and developer of a company comes back he often faces incredible resistance from present investors. Michael Dell...

Tony Parfitt-465405 (8/7/2013)

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Perhaps the standard / enterprise licensing model is more about ease of enforcement than anything else. A lot easier to tie size limits to a particular edition than...

This is an absolute massive problem where I work as well.

Doubtless I suffer from it as well. I continually hear people expressing opinion as fact.

A start from which debate may...

Phil - I thought it was a great article. 100% with you.

There is still a massive need for good concise summary of existing systems. I am continually disappointed by many...

The latest MS gig of software as a service strikes me as companies trying to hold onto their IP and dressing it up as good for the user….

Don't get me...