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The Cost of Switching

Posted on January 20, 2015 by way0utwest

I read the book Space Prison a few years ago. It’s about a group of humans, attacked and left as prisoners on a harsh planet. There’s a few hundred of them, many dying in the first few weeks. They must fight just … Continue reading →

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Taking Care of Things Today

Posted on January 18, 2015 by way0utwest

I get the weekly SQLskills newsletter, which I always find interesting. There’s usually a video on a topic that teaches me something, and as an avid reader, I enjoy hearing about the books that Paul Randal has read. However the main part is called … Continue reading →

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Debugging SQL Server

Posted on January 16, 2015 by way0utwest

One of the tools that I found useful early in my development career was the debugger. Being able to track the values of variables, check the call stack, and pause execution of programs was handy. Early in my career, the … Continue reading →

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Hadoop and SQL Server

Posted on January 14, 2015 by way0utwest

There has been a lot of media attention to Hadoop in the last few years. In fact, Microsoft has spent a lot of resources to build the HDInsight version of the platform and integrate it into SQL Server. I’ve read quite a bit … Continue reading →

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