Most companies have too many rules. They're designed to keep people in line and drive them to produce more. The assumption is that without rules, people would be unmotivated, directionless, and unproductive.  This is insulting, patronizing, and an adversarial attitude to have. Trust, freedom, and autonomy are three

As I was trying to do some database schema cleanup, I needed to scan all databases on a particular server and see if there are any records in the table.  If there were no records this user table is unused and can not be dropped at this point. This approach

Was asked to question as part of an application and I thought it would be good to publicly share and document them for future reference. What is one strong opinion you have about software development that is also strongly held, and why do you hold this opinion? NULL [https://developer.

Had to do some sequential merging of records in sql data and this is one of the few occasions when a cursor is useful and it had been quite awhile since I had written a cursor and refreshed my memory with this. Need to merge records from a table that

Remember: Make a backup every time before upgrading Was writing a blog post and saw that a critical security feature was released for ghost this blog engine and found that my collation again is blowing up the migrations. Ghost blog people fix this shit by establishing a script to do

Did a copy/paste and accidentally stumbled onto the option enhancer that I had not remembered using before Example: Command+C Start with a simple command+c operation copy command I do all the time, but now in the paste target press Command+Option+V and you get in my

Came across a data situation where a previous decision to allow 1-N [https://www.relationaldbdesign.com/database-design/module6/three-relationship-types.php] matching for a parent->child table relationship [https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/142138/best-practice-for-parent-child-relation] was now unecessary and had led to confusion on data matching because the availability to

Tried to open a link in the command line, but was unable to because terminal did not recognize chrome [https://www.google.com/chrome/] as a registered binary to handle and open urls. Experimentation Tried to do this: chrome http://google.com Error was: zsh: command not found: chrome Ok,

Upgrading to the latest version of 3.X was no problem, but then moving from 3.X to 4 everything blew up because of database schema changes with messages like this A GhostError occurred. Message: Ghost was able to start, but errored during boot with: alter table `members_status_events`

Open Source, it forms the basis of most personal and commercial software with no sign of a decrease in adoption or change in it's practical use.  At <Company> there is no project or solution that I have heard of or examined that does not use or

Previously a design choice was made to store raw JSON [https://www.json.org/json-en.html] responses in a table asVARCHAR(MAX) [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/data-types/char-and-varchar-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15] field.  As the person coming in afterwards to understand and debug the problem this was a pain

Sometimes you want to test a query being unable to access a table that is part of a query (suppose you are using an ORM [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93relational_mapping] like Entity Framework [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/] <- which sucks ) and a

Preface: Covid19 [https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html]is a unique situation that gives opportunity to embrace successful distributed work.  With over eight plus months of resounding success to distributed work for the company with expectations meant and exceeding even the optimistic forecasts, I would like to propose

Use git log [https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log] with the arguments of * after [https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log#Documentation/git-log.txt---afterltdategt] Takes iso date [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601] parameter for example: 2020-01-01 * author [https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log#Documentation/git-log.txt---authorltpatterngt] Takes string pattern most likely the

A bug was reported where matching condition in the table join was produce erroneous matches and in this case this cause an invalid match which then caused the system to report records were not completed or available. Here is an example setup and results DECLARE @name1 NVARCHAR(200) = 'ABCDE

Collected merge statement alternatives as their use can consolidate the insert/update sql code necessary but come with known risks > The Case of the Blocking Merge Statement (LCK_M_RS_U locks) [https://littlekendra.com/2016/05/24/the-case-of-the-blocking-merge-statement-lck_m_rs_u-locks/] Use Caution with SQL Server’s MERGE

As Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-faq] is a separated Virtual Machine on the host Windows Operating System instead of a process it is no longer able to use the same X Windows forwarding over 127.0.0.1 that I was previously

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-versions] which is now a fully backed kernel linked through underlying virtual machine tied into the hypervisor of the machine is a full linux kernel and environment, but it still sits inside of the Windows host which can

Writing these down because I keep forgetting them. Situation 1 - Local commit wrong branch Made a commit to a branch I shouldn't have locally i.e. main should be in fixify-brokebrain git reset --hard HEAD^ Resets the branch to the commit specified and remove changes ( --hard [https:

Documentation Starting with SQL Server 2016 (13.x), there is no limit on the size of memory-optimized tables, though the tables do need to fit in memory. Memory tables in SQL Server are pretty close analogs to Redis [https://redis.io/topics/lru-cache] [https://redislabs.com/try-redis-cloud-essentials-for-a-free-shirt/?utm_source=google&

Trying out some things and writing and compiling a type in Powershell PS C:\Users\siliconrob\Desktop> $MyCode = @" $MyCode = @" >> public class Calc >> { >> public int Mul(int a,int b) >> { >> return a*b; >> } >> } >

This is a helper post to understand that denormalized [https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/difference-between-normalization-and-denormalization/?ref=rp] data created with joins and in particular left joins or cross apply [https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1958/sql-server-cross-apply-and-outer-apply/] can be rolled up with the proper use of GROUP BY [https://www.sqlservertutorial.net/

I completely agree with the sentiment here. The stand-up meeting is a good way to lose focus for a team especially if you are distributed and remote. If you can use Basecamp then I would suggest that, but if you are not use an automated standup bot in your slack

I wanted to generate an 8 character web compatible (base64 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64] encoded) id that is fairly easy to type or memorize from SQL, so came up with this inspired from this Postgres [https://blog.andyet.com/2016/02/23/generating-shortids-in-postgres/] approach SELECT randomId from openjson(

This project [https://github.com/oriches/faker-cs]although popular on nuget [https://www.nuget.org/packages/Faker.Net/] for downloads appeared to have been for the most unmaintained as the last update to the nuget package had not occurred in approximately in almost 2 years  and before the last update