In 1986, my big brother Jim accidentally encouraged me on my road to geekdom by purchasing an Apple][e, and later by gifting various Apple games to me, and teaching me about pre-Internet BBSs. In 1992, my high school purposefully encouraged me on that same road by offering Programming 1 and 2 (using Borland Pascal!), and […]
I had a brief email discussion recently, which could be effectively be boiled down to: Them: “Are foreign key constraints more performant than referential integrity triggers?” Me: “Yes.” *stomp*stomp*stomp*stomp* “Yes, they are.” Let’s start with a generic statement, and get more specific. Generally speaking: Don’t try to circumvent SQL Server’s primary features. This means that […]
Resumes are like opinions, which are like something else: everybody’s got one. And if you don’t have one, then certain key functions are very hard to perform. In this case, not having a resume makes the job-getting difficult. We’ve talked about resumes, and even reviewed a few, on the show (here and here) and on […]