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...

CLR Triggers in SQL Servers

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?

Intruding into Dummy Websites

Phil Factor muses on security, bayonets, and databases, and somehow manages to pull it all together in this editorial.

Teched Water Bottle

One of the charming people who helped me register at Teched told me where we, who had registered, could get...

The Walking Billboard

I spent a fascinating hour at the Teched Shop this afternoon. I was trying to get a feel for where...

Confessions of an IT Manager, 2nd Edition

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.

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Professor Hugh Bin-Haad.

Steve Jones isn't usually the wild man of publishing, but on April 1st, a strangely
anarchic spirit breaks loose. Having...

The Visit of the Recovery Testers.

Phil has a nasty surprise when a team of testers turn up to test an n-tier system

Accessing results in a random order: Towards the automated Thank-you letter

Phil shows how 'CROSS APPLY' can be useful for writing thank-you letters or thinking of excuses as to why your project has failed....

Accessing results in a random order: Towards the automated Thank-you letter

 Most of the time, you want to have a SQL result in a particular order. Occasionally you just don't care....