I find that piano music such as Debussy, John Ireland, Howells listened to through colleague-canceling headphones is perfect for the concentration.

The weaving loom, the piston engine, and the computer are examples of machines which, through the use of previously unimaginable repetition, relieve humans of unimaginable drudgery. If the automation of...

Bruce Schneier has had to retract the original contents of the blog post. Sorry, but the story is another internet myth that originally came from a Spanish newspaper. ...

Window functions are great for any 'inter-row' calculations where...

Itzik has written a very fine blog on the subject of the missing functions Window Functions (OVER Clause) – Help Make a Difference. Also worth a look is PostgreSQL's documentation...

I'm completely in awe of Larry's talent in injecting so much humour into whatever he draws. Very few people understand the predicament of developers and DBAs was well as...

I'd like to be Don Camillo. OK, he's not a superhero, but he is a fictional character; hot-tempered, impulsive, but with great common-sense.

The SQL Server Modeling technologies, presently in CTP, aim to provide significant productivity gains across the lifecycle of .NET applications by enabling developers, architects, and IT professionals to work together...

Count me in. I'd have one too.

The overwhelming cost of a database application usually turns out to be the cost of training, the cost of integrating the...

If so, I apologize. In the editorial, I'm just giving an initial reaction to the CTP based on what a developer in...

You might have thought that SmartAssembly, described here http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-tools/smartassembly-eating-our-own-dogfood/ by Simple-Talk's editor, is a bit peripheral as it is designed mainly for .NET applications, but if you pore through...

We already have an SSC iPhone/iPod app that allows you to see all the SSC RSS feeds. Yessir. we have an iphone version of SSC, though pretty soon you are...

Unfortunately, the last part of the article is missed and this is created misunderstanding. Even for me is difficult to understand myself. I did sent email to the publisher but...

I'm not clear to me whether you are suggesting that this approach (restore followed by a rename) is a good way of updating the data marts from...