The secret skill revealed in the dusty booklet
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...
2009-06-18
1,966 reads
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...
2009-06-18
1,966 reads
Do CLR triggers really represent the most popular usage of CLR in enterprise SQL Servers? Phil Factor wants to know if this is the case, and if so, what on earth are they doing?
2009-06-08
495 reads
Phil Factor muses on security, bayonets, and databases, and somehow manages to pull it all together in this editorial.
2009-06-02
189 reads
One of the charming people who helped me register at Teched told me where we, who had registered, could get...
2009-05-10
1,693 reads
I spent a fascinating hour at the Teched Shop this afternoon. I was trying to get a feel for where...
2009-05-10
1,269 reads
The software industry is, just occasionally, more absurd than one would dare to imagine. Having spent most of his working life in its clutches, Phil Factor has pretty much "seen it all" and what's more he's prepared to tell what he knows. The second edition of Phil's "Confessions of an IT Manager" contains Phil's full repertoire of tales of institutional mayhem and software projects gone awry.
2009-05-07
2,495 reads
Steve Jones isn't usually the wild man of publishing, but on April 1st, a strangely
anarchic spirit breaks loose. Having...
2009-04-03
1,483 reads
Phil has a nasty surprise when a team of testers turn up to test an n-tier system
2009-03-30
103 reads
Phil shows how 'CROSS APPLY' can be useful for writing thank-you letters or thinking of excuses as to why your project has failed....
2009-03-18
3,881 reads
Most of the time, you want to have a SQL result in a particular order. Occasionally you just don't care....
2009-03-16
3,119 reads
By Chris Yates
A brief introduction to the tool and its advantages for database migrations DevOps is...
In a previous blog post we went through how to build a Docker container...
Businesses are drowning in data, but starving for insights. That's where SQL experts swoop...
select Custno, Addr1, City, Res_Phone, Bus_Phone, Fax_Phone, Marine_Phone, Pager_Phone, Other_Phone, email1, email2 from customer...
I'm only processing 50,000 records not everything from the Table where there are 250,00...
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