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I am with you. Been messing with tools my entire life...have tried ratcheting screwdrivers of several kinds...Hard no. If I do lots of screws, I use a drill or impact driver. Or, f…

Front page of the .pdf shows a neat lumber gauge in action. It's designed to fit on your finger and allow rapid checking of common dimensions. You can still buy these...or, in this…

I recall this fondly when it came out. I had a few racks of Sun servers at that time...and anyone I showed the video too were convinced it was bullshit. April Fools anyone? However…

Here's a link https://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/where-does-the-car-dealer... FTA: "National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA), the new-vehicle department of a car dealership a…

I don't really doubt the numbers...in fact, I thought them a bit low. My feeling is that this will really change the automotive landscape for the overall lifecycle of a car. Seems …

Canada,ditto.

I am surprised I had to scroll this far to find a dBase reference. I am the same vintage as OP, and yeah... back in the day dBase was the key to riches...at least as a contract dev…

Shelves and shelves of tidy orange binders. I had them too!

I am also old. And tend to agree with you on this.

Interesting. It was never an issue for us, as we were close to the CC servers. Some folks were not, so they ran their dev/build locally ("network close" to th CC servers) and VNC'd…

I wish I could answer this. I have always had a penchant for any robust versioning system. Even the simple ones (CVS and the like) were amazeballs to me at the time. 20 odd years a…

The compressor doesn't move any air inside the refrigerator. There is a separate fan in the freezer compartment that does that.

Thanks. Scar tissue sometimes breeds insight. In further conversation on this phenomenon, I would argue that "long lived databases" are not so as result of brilliant design. Rather…

If I publish a stored proc as an API, it leaves me free (within reason) to alter the actual SQL supporting it. Like modern API design, as long as you don't remove functionality, th…

I would be having words with the DBA about this. If there is a DBA. No DBA I would hire would allow this silliness. At least not in the actual application schema.

Noticed I said "limit", and not "eliminate". The concept of NULLS in an RDBMS has been discussed and argued for decades. Three valued logic is generally not well understood, and as…

Ok, story time. Worked on a near-real-time system that processed millions of rows an hour. Devs routinely did a "select " and pulled 100K rows into an array on a local client. And …

This is going on my wall. Thanks so much.

I think they are wonderful (from the Codd and Date days...) but mostly everyone else disagrees.

>protect the DB I share this sentiment. The apps will come and go, the real value is in the data. If the database can cover its ass, I am less concerned about ham-fisted developers…

Are you me? LOL

>business logic is put into stored procedures This is a double-edged sword. I have seen massive business logic baked into stored procedures...so much so, that the applications them…

>the database is almost always the main cause of any performance issues I would be careful with the term "cause". There is a symbiotic relationship between the application and the …

This article is informative. I have found that databases in general tend to be less sexy than the front-end apps...especially with the recent cohort of devs. As an old bastard, I w…

Ah! Good ol' DNS. Nothing can go wrong now!