January 2009 - Posts

• Beg, Borrow, Steal before Build

  Posted Monday, January 26, 2009 4:36 PM | 11 Comments
  
  

  The art of developing an application, or maintaining a database server, really consists of finding ways of postponing or avoiding programming. As Phil Factor points out, most good DBAs and developers are marked out by a propensity for "bone-headed stubbornness Read More by Tony Davis | 11 Comments | Comment on this post

• Running before you can walk

  Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:55 PM | 9 Comments
  
  

  Everyone here knows what a nested loop join is, right? However, I am still willing to bet that if you ask three different people, you will get four subtly different answers.   I admire a person who can take a subject that has apparently been "done Read More by Tony Davis | 9 Comments | Comment on this post