We have here an easy, handy-dandy way to find out how much CPU is in use on your server. Of course you can find out by opening up task manager, or by running perfmon, but that’s not really the point. We want something quick and easy. We want something we could potentially use for monitoring, […]
Category: Tech and Learning
Blockades and ladders to learning new tech
It’s been a long time since I’ve been a true newbie to a technology. There are plenty of things I don’t use, don’t know, wouldn’t be able to do for a job, of course. But as a professional and a consultant, most of what you do is at least remotely tied to what you already […]
Applied SQL: LIKE ‘whatever’
Today let’s play around with the LIKE operator. Like, totally. Like, Introduction Like “determines whether a specific character string matches a specified pattern. A pattern can include regular characters and wildcard characters.” That makes it pretty darn useful, say, when we’re searching for all product reviews with the word “worst” in it: SELECT ID, Comments […]