July 2007 - Posts

• Non-Technical: Whoops

  I just did a podcast for Greg Low's site www.sqldownunder.com , and in Greg's description he gave me the MVP title. I guess since we speak at the same events and such there was an assumption made. For the record, I am not an MVP, sadly. Been trying to Read More... Posted Monday, July 23, 2007 9:39 AM by James Luetkehoelter | 1 Comments

• NULL, Black Holes, and Birthdays: Part I

  Strange title, yes. After reading Hugo Kornelis ' excellent post on NULLs , I found myself getting very little sleep as I pondered the points he made. If you haven't already read it, do so, now prefereably. The two main points he brought out were (correct Read More... Posted Monday, July 16, 2007 11:14 PM by James Luetkehoelter | 2 Comments Filed under: TSQL, SQL Server, NULL, Database Theory

• Agile Development and the "DBA"

  Adam poked me with a stick to discuss this further (that was 5 stiches plus a tetanus shot, thanks Adam), since I alluded to it in my first post on the site. I had a conversation with a developer friend of mine that believed 100% Agile development. It Read More... Posted Thursday, July 05, 2007 1:40 PM by James Luetkehoelter | 8 Comments Filed under: Agile, DBA, SQL Server