Monthly Archives: January 2017

Number Security

Posted on January 4, 2017 by way0utwest

There’s a scary item recently in a Database Weekly newsletter. Apparently your credit card number code can be guessed in seconds. Using techniques that spread guesses around to a number of sites, criminals can avoid triggering alarms, which makes some … Continue reading →

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Be Careful of Your Create Stored Procedure Batch

Posted on January 3, 2017 by way0utwest

I was rehearsing a demo with someone recently and we had some stored procedure code that looked like this: CREATE PROCEDURE UpdateEmpID @empid INT AS BEGIN UPDATE  dbo.Employees SET empid = 3 WHERE  empid = @empid ; END However, this … Continue reading →

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The Salary Range

Posted on January 3, 2017 by way0utwest

We published the results of our 2016 Salary Survey today, which has some interesting numbers in it. I haven’t done a lot of analysis of the data, but it seems as though the averages are higher than I expected for … Continue reading →

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Starting with Chocolatey

Posted on January 2, 2017 by way0utwest

I ran across Chocolatey years ago when Scott Hanselman wrote about it in his power tool list. At the time, I wasn’t in need of the tool, but I thought it was cool and tried it. I was hooked. In … Continue reading →

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