Archive for June, 2008

Extreme Makeover – Database Edition

The original idea for this blog was to write about some of the craziest things you would ever want to do with MS SQL Server. Things like building DTS packages that have a single T-SQL task that executes a stored procedure, or building a database that has but a single table with 800 million rows [...]

The Power of Not Knowing

At some point in my life I was introduced to the idea that there are four corners of knowledge, or something to that effect. And the corners are labeled “Things You Know”, “Things You Don’t Know”, “Things You Know You Don’t Know”, and finally “Things You Don’t Know That You Don’t Know”. Gradually I have [...]