“Git-Go” is something we say in the South that means “right at the start”. I’ve seen several applications for on-premise systems that don’t have much in the way of diagnostics - the developers rely on a debugger, the event logs on the server and client workstation, and most of all, the ability to watch the system from end-to-end. This approach ...

The behavior of column matching in subqueries is a little peculiar, to say the least.  If you've been bitten by this behavior once, you're unlikely to have been bitten a second time, but for some of us it just takes a while to sink in. This morning I wasted a good five minutes ''troubleshooting'' a query that wasn't working out the way I ...