Frustration with Bad Design
It can be very easy for technology experts to get frustrated when they see bad design and practices, but you must be careful with how you go about trying to influence change.
2014-07-28
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Frustration with Bad Design
It can be frustrating to deal with poorly implemented systems, but Steve Jones notes that you can't take things into your own hands.
2014-07-28
301 reads
Summer, Summer, Summertime
This Friday Steve Jones has a poll about your summertime activities. What have you done away from work that was memorable?
2014-07-25
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Quick Tips–SQL Prompt Aliases for Every Table
I love SQL Prompt, and think it’s a great productivity tool. Even before I worked at Red Gate, I love...
2014-07-24 (first published: 2014-07-17)
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T-SQL–Converting Seconds to Time
I was working on a small piece of code the other day that was calculating the seconds for an event....
2014-07-23
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2014-07-22
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2014-07-21
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Powershell Tips–Showwindow
Looking for help is a pain in Powershell. I type something like
help get-process
execute this and I’m scrolling up and down....
2014-07-21
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2014-07-21
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2014-07-04
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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