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| bio | website | maps.google.co.uk/… |
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| location | London, United Kingdom | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years |
| seen | Apr 14 at 0:19 | |
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Data warehouse contractor in London. Mostly I work with SQL Server on Insurance clients. I've proposed a business intelligence site on Area 51, which has now been merged into dba.stackexchange.com.
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Feb 17 |
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Stored Procedures a bad practice at one of worlds largest IT software consulting firms? Bear in mind that most large I.T. consulting firms have a motive to maximise billable hours while keeping their arse covered. The old-timers with any clout in these firms also tend to be players and bureaucrats rather than techies. I'd take things like that from a consultancy firm with a grain of salt - I've gotten consultancy firms out of the shit on more than one occasion by fixing up their 'best' practice. |
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May 1 |
awarded | Editor |
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May 1 |
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Is premature optimization really the root of all evil? edited body |
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Jan 2 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Jan 2 |
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Does it hurt to learn bits of many programming languages? @Jae - When it first came out the only alternative for Windows application development was Win32/C, and VB is much easier to develop forms based applications with than that platform. Now VB is incumbent; it still comes with Office in the form of VBA and there is a large body of legacy VB code in production. Just like MS-Word, there are many superior products but VB remains popular because of its incumbency. Sadly, technical merit is only loosely correlated with market success in the software industry. |
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Jan 1 |
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Does it hurt to learn bits of many programming languages? @Jae - Where do I begin? Perhaps the broken type system (some native VB types are not automation compatible and can't be used with COM types such as Collections) or the painful error handling (want a stack trace - catch and rethrow the error in the error handler of every single procedure). Form definitions hidden in opaque module headers, the propensity to generate hidden COM references behind the scenes and not clean them up properly. Basic reference counding garbage collection imposed with its tight coupling to COM perhaps? There's a few, just OTOH. |
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Dec 30 |
answered | Why the Select is before the From in a SQL Query? |
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Jul 29 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Nov 20 |
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Perks for new programmers Has anyone out there noticed how it's next to impossible to crack off a silent one when sitting on an Aeron? |
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Oct 17 |
answered | Is premature optimization really the root of all evil? |
