Posts filed under: development
Using visual aids for actionable reflection
Without reflection there can be no learning. Reflection is the time when we look at what we have done, including actions and behaviors, and evaluate what worked or did not work for a situation. This could be as individuals, a...
Defensive Database Programming
There I was minding my own business having breakfast and reading SQL Server Central‘s editorial when I saw a link to Alex Kuznetsov’s Defensive Database Programming book. I read the book a year or so ago, and much of it will not come as any...
Seth Godin’s Quality Abyss
I have worked at companies in the past where we were constantly struggling to climb out of what Seth Godin classified as Falling down the quality abyss. His post struck a cord of remembrance and so I urge you to read...
Linked Server Setup with Alias and SQL Server Agent support
It is not always intuitive on how to setup a linked server with an alias, or setup security for the linked server when it will be used via a SQL Agent Processing Job. Here are a few notes to make...