Monthly Archives: May 2017

A (mostly) Unwired Week at #MSBuild

Part of a series looking back at Build 2017, going over the 20+ pages of notes I took. Last week I had the opportunity to attend Microsoft’s Build conference, and as I wrote, I planned to use a notebook and … Continue reading

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Trying GO with SQL Server

Not the batch separator, but the GO language. I’m always interested in learning new things, and GO has been one of those items that I’ve wanted to look at and see how it works. This is a big language at … Continue reading

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Quick Graph Database

There’s a sample to work through here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/graphs/sql-graph-sample I decided to try this in CTP2 and just see how it works. I didn’t do much, but I added a node and an edge with this code: CREATE TABLE Person (ID … Continue reading

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Less QA?

This editorial was originally published on Jul 31, 2013. It is being re-run as Steve is out of the office. Throughout most of my career, people have complained that software is never tested enough, not tested well, and certainly not … Continue reading

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