Subqueries II

More Funny SELECTs

Reducing the Cycle Time

Building software can be hard and lots of people have tried various methodologies to improve the way their teams work. Steve notes a lot of the process is the same, but he has a preference.

The Funny SELECTs

Doing a Little Research

I've been very pleased with the direction of SSMS the last few years. As it's been separated from SQL Server releases and gets updated more often, I think the changes from v17 though v20 have been improvements. There are still issues, but it's been better. Now we finally have SSMS moving to a modern shell […]

A New Word: Nachlophobia

nachlophobia – n. the fear that your deepest connections with people are ultimately pretty shallow, that although your relationships feel congenial in the moment, an audit of your life...

A Strange Query

Over-Engineering

Steve Jones thinks that we often over-engineer software, trying too hard to consider every possibility rather than getting it close.

Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access

Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used with a read-only database as a source. It’s a good questions as I’ve seen some...

Have Grace

A few thoughts on dealing with others this holiday season.