Monthly Archives: January 2016

Chips and Margaritas at SQL Saturday #461

Posted on January 15, 2016 by way0utwest

It was a few years back that my wife and I planned a trip to the Austin City Lights music festival to see Stevie Wonder. This was a bucket list item for us, and we thoroughly enjoyed a long weekend … Continue reading →

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Security Convenience

Posted on January 15, 2016 by way0utwest

I wrote a question of the day recently that seemed to catch many people. The question had to do with mapping users when a login isn’t specified in the call. The behavior is to auto match existing logins with the same name. … Continue reading →

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Tracking Professional Athletes

Posted on January 14, 2016 by way0utwest

I used to read about technology to allow computers to track a single person’s movements from video footage. We’ve seen this shown in Hollywood movies, where casinos can take a picture of a person and backtrack all their previous movements … Continue reading →

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Rebuilding a Heap–Don’t Do It

Posted on January 13, 2016 by way0utwest

I saw someone mention recently that you can run a REBUILD on a heap table. I hadn’t realized that, but when I looked in BOL, I saw that indeed you can run this on a heap. That’s interesting, in that … Continue reading →

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