two approaches often surface as the prime navigators guiding us toward the shore of high-quality software – Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
11 Essential Tips for Avoiding Common SQL Server Performance Tuning Mistakes
This blog post will cover 11 tips for avoiding common SQL server mistakes. From indexing to security, these tips will help you optimize your database’s performance.
Google Drive Trick – Google Spreadsheet Formatting Dates to String
Google Spreadsheet keeps turning the dates I type into mm/dd/yyyy. My team found a trick to keep dates as plain strings so nobody mixes up formats.
Professional Development – Dr W. Edwards Deming’s 14 Principles on Total Quality Management
I was reading Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s 14 principles of Total Quality Management. Here they are, with a few resources I collected on the subject.
Personal Technology – From Floppy to CD, DVD to USB Drive – Quick Note on Evolution of Personal Storage Device
Finding a box of old floppy disks made me nostalgic. A quick look at the personal storage device, from 1.44 MB floppies to CD, DVD and USB drives.
SQLAuthority News – MS Access Database is the Way to Go – April 1st Humor
An April Fool’s Day post: a friend emailed me reasons to use MS Access instead of SQL Server, and not one of them was valid. Read them for a laugh.
SQL SERVER – Enumerations in Relational Database – Best Practice
Marko Parkkola from Finland shares a best practice for enumerations in relational database design: the right way to store them and one clearly wrong way.