Monthly Archives: July 2016

A New Look

Posted on July 11, 2016 by way0utwest

I was browsing around the Internet recently, collecting links for Database Weekly when I came to Michael J Swart’s blog. I love Michael’s writing and drawing. On a whim, I asked if he’d do an avatar. He agreed, and sent … Continue reading →

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Going On-Prem?

Posted on July 11, 2016 by way0utwest

When I started in this business, every company owned their own servers, and had their own data center. Now, some of those data centers were closets (including that for one state government Senate). Some were offices-converted-to-computer rooms, rarely with separate … Continue reading →

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Using sp_executesql Parameters –#SQLNewBlogger

Posted on July 7, 2016 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I haven’t used sp_executesql much. Instead, my habitually way of executing dynamic SQL has been with EXEC(). There are … Continue reading →

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Fuzzy Processing

Posted on July 7, 2016 by way0utwest

This is really interesting. A computer chip that doesn’t exactly perform mathematical calculations correctly. That sounds crazy, and in some cases it is. Most of us want math to be exact, and work perfectly every time when we run calculations. … Continue reading →

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