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  • RE: A Break from Databases

    Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

    Atmospheric 70's cold war thriller. Not a wasted word of dialogue and superb acting.

    Chronicle

    A very good teen morality tale: with great power comes great responsibility....

  • RE: The Success Trap

    This is the dilemma of contractors too, who enter the job with a well-defined skillset. Over time you become 'siloed' leading to a narrowing range of opportunities as all software...

  • RE: Efficiency

    I have always agreed with the idea that those who can't program go into management (or better still, become business analysts). My suspicion is that older coders are being sidelined...

  • RE: Are We Not Testing Enough?

    There are plenty of books on this topic. Smart and Gets Things Done by Joel Spolsky is an excellent guide, covering the How and Who to hire. It very clearly...

  • RE: Minimal Meetings

    A very effective way to keep meetings short and to the point is to:

    i) start on time and accept no latecomers

    ii) remove the furniture

    If one-to-one meetings are needed, you can...

  • RE: DBCC Timewarp

    I'm sorry Steve, you're not thinking temporally with this very handy utility, and so, although your official answer is currently correct, it will be wrong. If you run the command...

  • RE: What's a Toaster?

    PDF995

    A great embedded print device that does what it says on the tin - and all for under 10 bucks! Had my copy for years and last updated in 2007!...

  • RE: get real!

    real is actually a synonym for float(24) which has a precision of only 7 digits.

  • RE: My Approach to Writing for SQLServerCentral

    Thank you for a very good reminder on how to prepare an article.

    May I also suggest that anybody replying to articles which have obviously taken considerable time and effort to...

  • RE: Creating User-Defined Data Types - SQL School Video

    I've been using UDTs for years for those very reasons of consistency & self-documentation you propounded in your video. Updating the UDT has always been its Achilles heel.

    Currently

    You suggest in...

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