The T-SQL Hammer
The over-reliance on a familiar tool is best described with the quote, “if all you have is hammer, everything looks...
2010-02-16
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Blog Posts
Three Turns On The Road
Huh? My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the...
2010-02-16
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Finding Blog Topics
I used to think that I would run out of things to write about, but a decade after starting to...
2010-02-15
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First Public Hearing Against Quebec's Pension Fund Manager - The Beginning of Proof that Multiple Laws Were Violated (Before Sabia took over at least)
As mentioned in a previous post, between the months of January and September 2008 I was hired to be a Database...
2010-02-15
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nHibernate Database, First Look
I’m getting my first look at a full-fledged nHibernate database developed by consultants for our company. I thought I’d share...
2010-02-15
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Set your Warehouse Database to Read Only
In most environments new data is added to the data warehouse daily, weekly or even monthly.Even further, these changes typically...
2010-02-15
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Technet and MSDN coming to Baton Rouge
On March 4th Microsoft will be hosting two half-day events in Baton Rouge, LA.These free live learning sessions will explore...
2010-02-15
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The PASS Acquisition of SQL Saturday
A couple of weeks ago, it was announced that the SQL Saturday franchise was voluntarily transferred to PASS . This change...
2010-02-15
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Why I Don't Like Microsoft Access
After seeing Brent Ozar's Top 10 Reasons Why Access Doesn't Rock, and seeing all the comments it generated, I figured...
2010-02-15
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Windows 7 Presentation Mode
Recently I was just killing a few minutes and was looking for some tips for Windows 7. I get along...
2010-02-15
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Blogs
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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