Phil Factor's Phrenetic Phoughts : February 2006

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February 2006 - Posts

I could do it in my sleep

Posted Thursday, February 23, 2006 10:01 PM | 4 Comments

In which Phil Factor mulls over the strange effects that overwork can have on ones sleeping patterns Read More

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Sir! My dog ate my database.

Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:04 PM | 6 Comments

In asking various colleagues about the disasters or near disasters they have had with databases, I find to my astonishment that I am the only one who has ever, in a moment when my attention wandered, deleted a live database. It is odd, though, how products Read More

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February 2006

Net Performance Cribsheet

Robyn and Phil tackle the topic of how to make .NET applications perform well. As usual, they try to... Read more...

SQL Code Layout and Beautification

William Brewer takes a look at the whole topic of SQL Code layout and beautification, an important... Read more...

SSIS Package Componentization

In this article, David Leibowitz describes methods for scalable SQL Server 2005 Integration Services... Read more...

The Burning Men - The IT drug habit

It would seem bizzare that IT staff who depend on their quick wits for their living should ever think... Read more...

The Time Bomb

Phil cheerfully admits to his fair share of accidental IT disasters. His experiences some time ago with... Read more...