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Archives: May 2009
Book Review: Success Is A Choice
I just finished reading Success Is A Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life. Written by Rick Pitino, a highly successful collegiate and professional basketball coach, this book was a good read in that it was well organized, eloquent, and included many stories from the author's own… Read more
1 comments, 526 reads
Posted in Tim Mitchell on 28 May 2009
Give Us TRIM()!
If you're like me, you've probably typed in LTRIM(RTRIM([value])) hundreds, if not thousands, of times during your travels through SQL Server. I've long wondered why there was no integrated function that would serve this purpose.
Pinal Dave (@pinaldave) has submitted an item on Microsoft Connect to suggest the… Read more
10 comments, 638 reads
Posted in Tim Mitchell on 28 May 2009
Sometimes, code comments are informative and helpful
... and other times, they are stop-you-in-your-tracks funny. Here's an example of the latter:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/2009/04/21/funniest-code-comment-ever.aspx Read more
1 comments, 108 reads
Posted in Tim Mitchell on 19 May 2009
The Windows 7 RC0 Experience
Over the past 2 days, I’ve gone full bore into Windows 7. I’ve installed RC0 on 2 of my laptops, and so far I’m happy with the results.
The first installation was very quick and easy. I had an unrecoverable operating system error on my XP installation, according to the… Read more
3 comments, 151 reads
Posted in Tim Mitchell on 12 May 2009