I was reading a MCP training manual for SQL Server the other day. It was good. The whole of TSQL was covered in four hundred pages. It didn’t go into anything esoteric, mind you, but it explained such things as remote transactions and locking hints with precision and clarity. There… Read more

Going through one’s father’s belongings after his death is always a poignant, bitter-sweet experience. I was going through his most precious books a while back; there were books that were written by him, books by friends and relatives, books about friends or relatives, books of precious poems. There was a… Read more