Building Better Software for Everyone
Building better software might be a bit more work when we consider ensuring everyone can use our work.
2020-05-25
79 reads
software development
Writing Before Reading
We often learn to write code before we really learn to read it, which seems like a problem to Steve.
2020-05-21
82 reads
2020-05-19
83 reads
Keeping Unique Aliases
Steve prefers having standards, and today notes that aliases should be included in your standards document.
2020-04-28
127 reads
Teams That Ship
Running software teams isn't as easy as it may seem, and the way you manage a startup is different than a mature organization. Steve has a few comments on the process one angel investor implements.
2020-04-14
100 reads
Looking Back
Today Steve talks about retrospectives and how we learn and grow as software professionals.
2020-03-30
78 reads
A Problem with Cowboy Coding
Cowboy coding can be a problem, and in a case Steve talks about, a temptation for someone to get more work.
2020-01-08
427 reads
The Art of Commenting
This week Steve talks about the ways in which comments are important in our code.
2020-01-04
235 reads
Become a Technological Historian
This week Grant muses on how history can impact our decisions moving forward, and having a little empathy can be useful when re-examining the past.
2019-10-26
116 reads
T-SQL Context Switching
Being a standards advocate, Steve has a few thoughts on team code structure.
2019-10-07
341 reads
Blogs
Creating a New Sequence–#SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote about sequences in an editorial recently and decided to start using them....
An All Star Lineup for EightKB
By Steve Jones
An online conference is coming on June 17, 2020 that is full of high...
How should I store currency values in SQL Server?
On Twitter, Michael Dyrynda writes: ?? Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever...
Forums
Filestream or Filetable or None...what to be used?
I've been assigned with a project that includes converting the columns in the existing...
How to force MS SQL to select a partition instead of making a full table scan
Hi all, I am currently designing a datamart layer in MS SQL 2016 Enterprise....
Daily 3 Coping
Today’s tip is find three good reasons to be hopeful for the future. http://voiceofthedba.com/2020/06/03/daily-coping-3-jun-2020/
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