Was it described as software that could query mixed datasources in situ?

To me it sounds like some form of ETL system that can merge data from several systems into a...

My first exposure to agile lead me to think of it as the bodge it and wing it methodology. It fundamentally isn't. It isn't even a methodology, it...

The thing that impresses me most about MySQL are the MySQL tech staff. These are a bunch of guys I consider myself privileged to have worked with.

The trainers were...

I would be surprised if it was the FKs that made the difference. I suspect it was the clustered keys primary or otherwise.

I have run into this problem on...

I've just been reading "The Mythical Man Month" by Fred Brooks. Some people think his book is brilliant other people deride it with comments such as "it taught me...

For me the most important thing about "agile" is that it emphasise communication and that the best communication is face to face.

Short itterations mean that developers and business people get...

If I am a fan of a tool then I have no qualms about pushing that tool regardless of who produces it.

There will always be people who complain about a...

The advantages of partitioning where only one filegroup is used is in the simplicity of splitting, merging and switching partitions to achieve a rapid delete of a large volume of...

I've seen that this article is going to be published again in the 3rd week in September 2009. A great deal has changed in the 18 months since I...

It depends on the personality of the person you are speaking to.

Some managers view any resistence as dissent to be crushed. A carefully phrased question can start a productive...

It isn't as complex as it looks. The complexity is in having to rename directories as a result of the timestamp facility but Red-Gate have that down as a...

I didn't include UNION because I could not think of an alternative to the UNION statement that didn't involve creating temporary tables.

INTERSECT and EXCEPT can be modelled with joins and...

In the graphical execution plan if you move the mouse pointer over the left hand graphic the costs are revealled.

The problem with a compound key where one of the fields is a ServerId is when you are running a disaster recovery site.

You have to remember NOT to synchronise the...

True Paul but the trick is to work out if you actually need those features and if not, why pay for them.

You wouldn't try and run your entire operation on...