2014-07-16
2,743 reads
Phil Factor
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Not Good Enough For Government Work
The complexity of financial trading systems is too much for an amateur approach, as the losses of various Bitcoin exchanges show.
2014-07-15
324 reads
Is It Time To Clear Out Those Quirky Functions?
Phil Factor ponders a cull of some of SQL Server's worst-behaving functions.
2014-07-10
299 reads
The myth of the ‘shared development model’
Phil Factor fluffs the feathers of the shared sandbox model of development.
2014-07-02
132 reads
Application Developers don’t own their data
As a data guy, I always smile when application developers refer to ‘their’ data. If only it were that simple.
2014-06-30
359 reads
Less and Less Visual
Phil Factor ponders the preponderance of text in current database tools, and asks what happened to our glorious graphical future?
2014-06-26
110 reads
Same tune, different song
It's not new and I'm already doing it. Phil Factor, a.k.a. Methuselah, on Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery.
2014-06-16
129 reads
Anything Remotely Useful
Phi Factor on how to combine PowerShell Remoting with slick Windows tools such as SQLPSX, Boxstarter and Chocolatey, to automate the development process right through to delivery.
2014-06-09
91 reads
Should your Source Control System understand your code?
Phil Factor ponders why improvements to source control and versioning so often lag behind the pace of progress in development as a whole.
2014-06-02
137 reads
No reason to abandon SQL
The early signs are that we can now run a SQL-based relational database with distributed execution plans over commodity hardware, leaving just the task of splicing together of the result to the engine itself, then why can’t Microsoft or Oracle do it?
2014-05-26
188 reads
Blogs
Fabric as a Data Mesh Enabler: Rethinking Enterprise Data Distribution
By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have approached data management with the same mindset as someone stuffing...
Truncate Table Pitfalls
Truncate Table Pitfalls Truncating a table can be gloriously fast—and spectacularly dangerous when used carelessly....
dataMinds Connect 2025 – Slides & Scripts
You can find all the session materials for the presentation “Indexing for Dummies” that...
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DBCC CHECKIDENT
What is returned as a result set when I run this command without a new seed value?
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