T-SQL:

1. A programming language consisting entirely of reserved words.
2. A syntactic programming language where semantics are dependent on dataset.
3. The classic practical joke where the con-artist convinces the programmer to think like a DBA.

Programming is to T-SQL
as
Major League Baseball is to Golf

Team

1. The collected members of a sports organization, from owners to managers to coaches to players to support staff.
2. A large collection of Special Forces warriors, trained to work in grueling environments and to kill in various and effective ways.
3. A collection of programmers terribly and reprehensibly misnamed by those who are much less skilled, experienced, and knowledgeable than the programmers from which they wish to usurp authority and control.

Team Building:

1. Often called an exercise, when, in fact, it’s just a painful burden.
2. Set of well-known parlor tricks used to short-circuit trust between the shiftless, confidence in the inexperienced, and passion in the apathetic.
3. The alchemy of human resources whereby lead is made into gold by cajoling the lead into singing Kumbaya.
4. Since they’re all friends, the executives’ none-too-subtle accusation that neither bad product quality, nor failures in market research, nor lackluster sales campaigns, nor the decision to send technical support offshore, nor inattention to the customer can explain the current business environment nearly as well as a lack of camaraderie.

Deciding to separate the Amalgamated Incorporated, Inc. executives from the non-executives for morale and team-building purposes, Mahogany Row scheduled for themselves a 10-day excursion on a private yacht in the Caribbean; staffed by a planned attendant-to-guest ratio of three to one. 

As the yacht sunk in heavy seas on the fourth day of the exercise, losing all hands, general morale at Amalgamated Incorporated, Inc. was increased by a measurable amount. Rank-and-file deemed the exercise a thrilling success.

All new-executive prospects have been very curious regarding next years’ plans for team building.

Technical Debt:

1. A concept, similar to a theory but absent any rigorous thought, used to convey software design risks in financial terms so the folks paying for the product can think they understand it.
2. Cognitive flotsam — or newspeak — tossed about by confused software designers to convey their increasing degrees of comprehension failure.
3. Anything the designer doesn’t want to consider or do; usually someone else’s idea.
4. The unknown unknowns in every project, increasing in debt with each increase in complexity, threatening bankruptcy in the poorly-designed and badly-conceived project.
5. The reason, according to the Scrum Lord, for the massive cost overruns and project delays that threaten the endangered project and its concomitant threatened project manager.

Template:

1. A Procrustean Bed for the average programmer.
2. Too often resembles a scaffolding with the familiar trap-door in the middle.
   

Termination:

1. Act of crimping connectors to cables.
2. Natural ending of a process thread.
3. Natural reward for programmers who finish developing the core business automation software at the same time the owner wants to appear lightweight and agile to prospective buyers.
   

Testing:

1. An error-free compile
2. Duty of the client
3. Too expensive

(see Verification and Validation)

Thin Client:

1. The equivalent of a mainframe terminal in a PC world.
2. Working for fashion models.

Trend:

Data anomaly that should be ignored.

Trigger:

1. A small mechanical device that, when appointed, releases the catch that looses the spring which drives the pin which ignites the charge which propels the dart that makes its point best on the first thing it finds.
2. A small logical device that, when appointed, releases the code that looses the call that drives the event which runs the logic which modifies the data that alters the state of the first place it lands.

Trivial:

1. I won’t get paid for this, will I?
2. I’ve done this before and think it was easy.
3. I’m going to copy and paste code from someone else’s program on this one.

Non-Trivial: This is going to be really expensive.

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