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The Developer Arguments for Stored Procedures

Posted on March 6, 2020 by way0utwest

In all of the decades that I’ve been working with SQL Server, many people have been preaching the benefits of using stored procedures, In all of that time, the vast majority of developers that I’ve worked with have not wanted … Continue reading →

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The Art of Commenting

Posted on January 4, 2020 by way0utwest

This week I noticed an article on comments in PoSh over at Simple Talk. It’s a nice look at the topic from Greg Moore and discusses the various ways that you can comment in the language. Since these scripts are … Continue reading →

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Double Check Your Math

Posted on December 23, 2019 by way0utwest

Performing calculations in our applications is important. In fact, if we do any sort of math, we really want to ensure that our results are what we expect. That seems obvious, but I’ve run into applications where the code deployed … Continue reading →

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Do What Hurts

Posted on October 22, 2019 by way0utwest

A long time ago I heard a manager at a company say that if something is hard, we ought to practice it more and find ways to make it easy. Barring that, we ought to at least be comfortable with … Continue reading →

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