October 2010 - Posts

• Shape the future of SQL Server by answering a new survey

  This is a proxy post for Raghu Ram, the Principal Group Program Manager for SQL Connectivity. This survey is open until November 2. Please respond to it now and help shape the future of SQL Server. Greetings to the SQL Server community : Last year in Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 27, 2010 10:09 AM by John Paul Cook | 0 Comments

• SQL Myths - 60 pages from Paul Randall

  Paul Randall has published 30 SQL myths with full explanations of why they aren't true. Download the pdf from http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/CommonSQLServerMyths.pdf . Are you going on a job interview? You should read this first. If you work with Read More... Posted Sunday, October 24, 2010 1:24 PM by John Paul Cook | 0 Comments

• T-SQL joke

  I was attending an ORM class for developers where I heard it said "Don't select star from a table". I've heard this many times and I'm sure you have, too. It makes for brittle code in case a column is added to the table. I started wondering if I could Read More... Posted Saturday, October 09, 2010 12:01 AM by John Paul Cook | 3 Comments