Monthly Archives: April 2015

Embrace Stored Procedures

Posted on April 20, 2015 by way0utwest

I’ve read a lot of pieces on stored procedures. Most of the articles were for using stored procedures, quite a few were against their use, and a handful with extreme opinions. This piece from Rob Conery, while perhaps NSFW, is one … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone – What Should Microsoft Do?

Posted on April 17, 2015 by way0utwest

I’ve been intrigued by Windows Phone as a platform. I’ve never owned one, and while I considered getting one, the dearth of apps led me to an Android instead. I really tried to get down to a list of core … Continue reading →

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Monitoring After Deployment

Posted on April 17, 2015 by way0utwest

Deployments of database and application changes have tended to be stressful in my career. I’ve seen the actual deployment of changes fail, installation programs crash, the startup of an application error out, or the famous blue screen of death from … Continue reading →

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April Blogger Challenge 3 – Filtered Indexes

Posted on April 16, 2015 by way0utwest

The April Blogger Challenge is from Ed Leighton-Dick and aimed at new bloggers, but anyone is welcome. I’m trying to motivate and cheer people on. Why Filtered Indexes I haven’t used filtered indexes much in my career as they didn’t … Continue reading →

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