The most infruriating SQL server issue…
Tonight, I’m trying to put together a few demos for my talk on Wed. As I’m working on it, I realized that one of my demos requires SQL Server and Northwind… I’ve faced this one before with SQL 2005, and thought I knew everything I needed to know. You might be scratching your head thinking “what the heck is he talking about.” I’m talking about how SQL 2005/2008 use a couple users that you might not be aware of. You find out about them when you go to attach an older DB like Northwind. What happens is that when you...
An Answer to my post for young programmers
My good buddy (actually my best friend from High School), "The Witt" complained that I wasn’t being helpful to programmers who are trying to learn the craft when I posted two weekends ago on "A Question you should ask when hiring a non-entry level developer." (OK, he wasn’t the only one... but, hey, we have a history, so he can get me to post a response, and you can’t... deal...) I decided that our subsequent conversation in email would make a good followup post for those who want to know what they should be doing, and with his...