Can you say it out loud? You might have known the capital was Boise, but if you pronounced it Boy-zee, you were wrong. I was there last Wednesday for the kickoff meeting of the Boise SQL Server User Group, and was told that if I didn't pronounce the name correctly, everyone would know immediately that I wasn't from around there.  The correct ...

In college, as part of my philosophy degree, I took a course on metaphysics. I can still vividly remember the first class. The professor presented us with a simple enough scenario:Consider a wooden boat, whose construction has just finished. Now fast-forward several months. The boat has been well used, and one of the planks that makes up its ...

I was going back through my files of draft blogs for the past 6 months (particularly looking for things that are wrong in my book,) and I found this one that covers something that I found really fascinating.)  In this thread, a person was attempting to create a pessimistic lock by applying an XLOCK in a hint.  Seemed reasonable to me, ...