My old boss used to reward staff who worked extremely long, unsociable hours with a free day off - a chance to rest and also a thanks for all your...

Brilliant article! opened my eyes to a few practices I hadn't realised were soo poor.

For a week I commuted 80 miles each way then thought hell no and asked work to put me up in a hotel, which they obliged since I was doing...

Hey,

I noticed you're using a cursor! isn't that forbidden? that a cursor is bad news for performance!

If I had the same task I'd use something like the following solution (wrote...

I work a system with hundreds of tables and we did have two stored procedures for each that were dynamically generated using our code generator. We've now moved away...