Andrew Clarke SQL Source Control: The Development Story, Part II
by Andrew Clarke | 02 September 2010 |
When creating SQL Source Control, the team had to make decisions as to which source control systems the tool would support, and needed to accomodate a range of different development practices. It also had to avoid the potential problems from the fundemental... Read more...
Auke Teeninga Minesweeper in T-SQL
by Auke Teeninga | 02 September 2010 |
Whatever happened to the idea that programming in TSQL can be fun? A Simple-Talk reader contributes an article to remind us all that there is more to TSQL than wrestling with DMVs and pumelling recalcitrant correlated subqueries. Read more...
Joe Celko The DIS-Information Principle, Part II
by Joe Celko | 01 September 2010 |  2 comments |
Database design simply involves populating a schema with tables that model sets of entities and relationships. A table will contain Columns that model an entity's attributes and contain scalar values. What could go wrong? Plenty, unfortunately, when these simple... Read more...
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