A New Word: Mottleheaded

mottleheaded – adj. feeling uneasy when socializing with odd combinations of friend and family, or friends and colleagues, or colleagues and family – mixing a medley of ingredients that...

Bad Stored Procedures

Stored procedures can be poorly written, but Steve prefers them over embedded code.

Disable All the Indexes

Redgate Clone Graduating Images

I wanted my own custom image in our internal Redgate Clone cluster, so I decided to make one. This is an overview of how this works. This is a...

Concat Addition

When Do We Worry About Scalability?

Steve has a few thoughts on the tradeoff between getting work done quickly and producing well performing code.

Technology and Privacy

Is data privacy becoming less or more of a problem?

Trigger Order III

AI Sings the Blues

Steve comments on some AI blues.

A New Word: Fensiveness

fensiveness – n. a knee-jerk territorial reaction  when a friend displays a casual interest in one of your obsessions. I think that some of us have some fensiveness about...