In my previous place of employment, we spent a lot of time talking and thinking about chasing the software holy grail: a framework capable of allowing developers to focus on a small subset of the technology stack, get everything else for free from the framework, and out the other end comes a fully functional application. Of course, that application is assumed to be user friendly, fully functional, performant, and maintainable. Over the years I tend to mock the idea to some degree, but I’m also a big believer that developers spent way too much time dealing with things that shouldn’t...
JumpstartTV is another one of these sites that are popping up that offer short and sweet tech screen casting. They offer 5-10 minutes videos covering the basics of a narrow technical topic. JumpstartTV focuses primarily on SQL Server topics, but they do have other material from time to time. I like this because I’m not really a database guy. I’ve designed a built a lot of applications, and therefore I fully appreciate the role the RDBMS plays in an system architecture, but my mind thinks in objects – not relational schema. Today’s topic was SQL Server Properties to Avoid...