Relational Types.

As I try to drag my team (sometimes with resistance, sometimes with pleasure) into the world of relational principles, I...

SQL Standards

Three posts, three critical rants. It's time to be constructive.

I was given the responsibility to decide on the SQL development...

SSIS: great idea, but buggy as heck.

Oh SSIS, how I love and hate you.

As DBA at my company, I don't actually develop much in SSIS. But...

The best laid plans....

I had big plans for this blog, a place to rant, a place to put cool things I discovered, a...

Separation of interface from implementation

One of the supposed advantages of the EF is that it abstracts you from
your database implementation. This is considered to...