January 2006 - Posts

• If you go down to the woods today...

  Posted Sunday, January 29, 2006 8:59 PM | 9 Comments
  
  

  --On the drawing of  teddy-bears/*I have been gently reproached for making my blog too developer-oriented, and geeky; thereby making managers feel neglected. We therefore introduce Teddy, our foray into unashamed  nostalgia in the Read More by Phil Factor | 9 Comments | Comment on this post

• "Documentation is the castor oil of programming"

  Posted Monday, January 23, 2006 4:31 PM | 3 Comments
  
  

  As prizes for the little occasional competitions on this BLog, we will be giving out copies of one or other of a couple of rather old books. They just happen to be two of the best books ever written about developing software. I'd be fascinated to hear Read More by Phil Factor | 3 Comments | Comment on this post

• Getting Stuff Into SQL Server

  Posted Friday, January 20, 2006 9:43 AM | 1 Comments
  
  

  Often, Newbies to SQL Server are left feeling puzzled by the difficulty of 'Getting stuff in and out' of data tables. At first it does seem daunting, and I have to admit that I'm still a bit vague on some aspects myself. How, (or why) would one get Read More by Phil Factor | 1 Comments | Comment on this post

• A SQL Limerick

  Posted Friday, January 13, 2006 8:15 AM | 10 Comments
  
  

  It wasn't my idea at all. However someone set me the challenge of writing executable code that rhymed and scanned in the form of a limerick. Obviously, the easy trick is to just to write the limerick, assign it to a string and then do text substitution Read More by Phil Factor | 10 Comments | Comment on this post

• Monthly Calendars in Transact SQL

  Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 9:44 AM | 11 Comments
  
  

  Phil Factor writes a stored procedure to display a months calendar Read More by Phil Factor | 11 Comments | Comment on this post

• Unreadable code

  Posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 12:28 PM | 12 Comments
  
  

  Phil Factor's competition for the most unreadable code that executes successfully against the sample Pubs Database Read More by Phil Factor | 12 Comments | Comment on this post