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A New Word: on tenderhooks

Posted on February 27, 2026 by way0utwest

on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which makes you feel that much more rooted to the world, even if the roots belong to someone else. I feel this all the time with my … Continue reading →

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Testing is Becoming More Important

Posted on February 25, 2026 by way0utwest

Many of us know that testing our code is important. The adoption of unit testing by many software application developers as a normal course of business has dramatically improved the quality of applications. Mobile software, especially, has benefited from the … Continue reading →

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Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger

Posted on February 25, 2026 by way0utwest

I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran into this while trying to solve a problem recently and had to check the error I was getting. This post shows what happened. Another post for … Continue reading →

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Can You Let Go of Determinism

Posted on February 23, 2026 by way0utwest

Why do we reboot machines when something goes wrong? I’m sure all have done it, and I would guess quite a few of you have found situations where this seems to fix issues, but there isn’t an underlying root cause … Continue reading →

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