• wasted space (unregistered)

    "Storing Terabytes of dross data does not mean that information useful to the business is being retained."

    I had this argument with a developer a few days ago. Says me "I'm not going to keep buying more disks for you. Its time to clean up. You don't need to have a local copy of everything data set from the file servers, everything you've ever downloaded and all the software from the repositories."

    He says "But I don't have a whole day to spend on cleaning up."

    Me "Arrgggg".

  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered) in reply to CyberShadow

    It could be a 1:1 replication of live data, as it is easier to sync testing and production from production backups than it is to build testing from a blank slate.

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to cbrink
    cbrink:
    700,000 of these products have not been sold in over a year. In other words, more than 50% of the data in the PRODUCTS table is obsolete, but can't be purged! Sheer genius!"

    Sorry - There is a difference between marking a product inactive and deleting it. Purging historical data is almost always the wrong thing.

    Gee, I guess tblProducts.IsCurrent could be a true/false value and make everyone happy

    inb4 someone not being happy

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to wasted space
    wasted space:
    "Storing Terabytes of dross data does not mean that information useful to the business is being retained."

    I had this argument with a developer a few days ago. Says me "I'm not going to keep buying more disks for you. Its time to clean up. You don't need to have a local copy of everything data set from the file servers, everything you've ever downloaded and all the software from the repositories."

    He says "But I don't have a whole day to spend on cleaning up."

    Me "Arrgggg".

    So give him a whole day to do it. I vote for Sunday.

  • Kirby L. Wallace (unregistered) in reply to Chubber

    I'm gonna legally change my name to "Name Redacted", and then sue the hell out of everyone involved for slander, defamation of character, libel, and any other powerful sounding legal phrases I can come up with. Then, I'll be Rich!

    Hey! It could happen!

    Wow. Captcha. Hope it's not prophetic! "damnurn"

  • Matt (unregistered) in reply to nah

    You mean

    1. Open Transaction
    2. Perform unit test
    3. Rollback transaction.
  • Javik (unregistered)

    You never know who may be looking for a product from 1993. For example:

    http://www.cdwg.com/shop/products/default.aspx?edc=21878

  • Omego2K (unregistered)

    If you're unit tests are interacting with the DB then they aren't unit tests. Integration tests are more like it.

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