I wrote an article called The Cone of Silence. We use it at our company, and it really helps to get stuff done.

Uh, thank you?

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Armen

Hi sqlvogel,

I don't agree that Access can't be used to learn "principles of normalization". I'll agree that Access shouldn't be used to learn about SQL Server or perhaps some...

From my knowledge of one product team at Microsoft, a) is definitely not true, and b) doesn't seem to be true either.

Is DevOps related to the "engineering approach" that is being considered inside Microsoft right now?

This is from a news article about the upcoming layoffs, including a quote from Satya Nadella:

Engineering...

As I originally wrote, one has to pick the right tool for the right job. Access is fine for prototyping and for limited-scale applications.

Since those are the scenarios where...

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