If you’ve ever had to format dates and times in SQL, you’ve probably come across one of the most jarring realities of working across platforms: every major RDBMS does it differently and sometimes confusingly. What’s a TO_CHAR() in Oracle becomes FORMAT() or CONVERT() in SQL Server, and its sort of the same in PostgreSQL… but […]
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When you create something, do you think about the future? Steve asks the question today.
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There are a number of ways to run SQL Server for free (or low cost) for development. Read a bit about how to do this.
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One of the slowest parts of any application is data retrieval and in this article, we look at how to cache SQL Server data for a web application.
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When I first started work as a software developer, I knew that getting an environment set up where I could compile a project might take a few hours or a few days. The complexities of how people built software projects, the dependencies, and more were handled in a very immature manner. These days I can […]
2022-11-16
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Steve notes that there are differences between state based development and migration based development, but neither is necessarily better.
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The challenges of state in databases can impact our development efforts.
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Leave a gate behind you the way you first found it. – from Excellent...
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