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  • Reply To: The Downside of Tool Autonomy

    Our industry is beset by chasing the shiny. It happens on all sides of the house, development, operations, support...and it's deadly. Yes, if a new tool comes along that obviously...

  • Reply To: Float Issues

    Rune Bivrin wrote:

    Yes, because MONEY is a precise data type with 4 decimal places. It's implemented as a 64-bit integer, scaled down by 10000. That and DATETIME must be the two...

  • Reply To: Float Issues

    Chris Jones wrote:

    I am intested to know how the people who answered this correctly figured it out 🙂

    Run the code 🙂 Then try to figure out what the hell SQL did...

  • Reply To: Let's Fix a Password Problem

    Password managers are not a good idea. Sure, they let you use all the crazy random passwords per site, but they represent a single point of vulnerability. Hack them and...

  • Reply To: A Problem with Cowboy Coding

    Automating processes is a double-edged sword. As one wit put it "It makes mistakes faster than ever!". 🙂

    And yes, managers ALWAYS view automation as a way to cut payroll. Full...

  • Reply To: Using the Lightweight Tools

    kiwood wrote:

    A couple of observations on the tools. First, the developers I know using Visual Studio Code are using it to develop using typescript and HTML. I personally wouldn't want...

  • Reply To: Using the Lightweight Tools

    I use both SSMS and Visual Studio w/ Resharper, but then I do exactly zero cloud development (a security nightmare if there ever was one). And while Notepad++ is my...

  • Reply To: Identity column as Primary Key - good or bad?

    Mr. Brian Gale wrote:

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    Mr. Brian Gale wrote:

    Are you going to have more than 2 million records in the table? If so, probably want that to be a bigint.

    Heh... I know you...

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  • Reply To: Identity column as Primary Key - good or bad?

    nova wrote:

    I think the topic has strayed from the original question so it may be worth making two points about customer identifiers. Firstly, IDENTITY is likely not very convenient as...

  • Reply To: Identity column as Primary Key - good or bad?

    jcelko212 32090 wrote:

    >> IDENTITY() is a piece of automation that solves a set of tricky problems for you. <<

    Actually, IDENTITY creates problems rather than solve them. Essentially, you've decided to throw...

  • Reply To: Azure Sphere

    At least someone's looking at it...

    With sensors (especially cheap sensors) not only do you have exposure from the network you also have to worry about physical compromise. Why hack a...

  • Reply To: It Just Works

    GeorgeCopeland wrote:

    What I don't agree with is your enthusiasm for implementing Access apps. Any "genius" that you see in Access is confined to the workstation. I can completely understand how...

  • Reply To: It Just Works

    call.copse wrote:

    roger.plowman wrote:

    call.copse wrote:

    roger.plowman wrote:

    ... From a developer standpoint Access STOMPS Visual Studio...

    I have a few issues with your post overall, which have been brought up by others, but I'm...

  • Reply To: It Just Works

    call.copse wrote:

    roger.plowman wrote:

    ... From a developer standpoint Access STOMPS Visual Studio...

    I have a few issues with your post overall, which have been brought up by others, but I'm going to...

  • Reply To: It Just Works

    GeorgeCopeland wrote:

    I have never done any development on Access, but I have sure been called to consult for a lot of Access applications. On many occasions, I have had the...

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