Posts filed under: development

Using visual aids for actionable reflection

Without reflection there can be no learning. Reflection is the time when we look at what we have done, including actions and behaviors, and evaluate what worked or did not......
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Defensive Database Programming

There I was minding my own business having breakfast and reading SQL Server Central‘s editorial when I saw a link to Alex Kuznetsov’s Defensive Database Programming book. I read the book a year or so......
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Seth Godin’s Quality Abyss

I have worked at companies in the past where we were constantly struggling to climb out of what Seth Godin classified as Falling down the quality abyss. His post struck a......
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Linked Server Setup with Alias and SQL Server Agent support

It is not always intuitive on how to setup a linked server with an alias, or setup security for the linked server when it will be used via a SQL......
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