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[Uncle Gizmo]

May not be relevant to many here.... But it's a good read!

A Dash of SQL

As developers, we often have to engage with management who doesn't have a clue what it is we do, or how. Even if that manager was technical once, their technical background is frequently out of date, and their spirit has been sapped by the endless meetings and politics that being a manager...

thedailywtf.com

 

[Isaac]

is the fact that the link you posted doesn't work, also part of the joke?
(totally possible - I'm gullible)

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

the link you posted doesn't work

It works for me...

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Link worked for me.

I would only add one more comment. A SIMPLE bar-chart type of display also makes them happy.

 

[Saphirah]

Indeed! The article was a blast to read Thank you!

Boiling down complex data to a simple dashboard is what i do all the time, and it is so much fun!
Having simple visualization such as traffic lights, bars, charts, or even just highlighting numbers with little up/down arrows and color helps non-technical people and management so much in their daily tasks.
I do disagree though with his technical implementation! 400 lines of subqueries is just unhealthy and a lot of his problems he talked about could be simplyfied.

 

[Isaac]

This time it worked for me.

It's an interesting article, but I agree with Saphirah: Anyone who actually deployed a t-sql query that read: WHEN VALUE >= '2'
...needs to be re-trained at best, rather than critiquing the culture (stupid as it may be), that obsesses over dashboards.

The author of that article strikes me as a beginner in SQL who has become horrified at his own code projects: And with good reason, and then has written an article fessing up to it in a somewhat deflective way. Hopefully he fixes that cr@p!