December 2006 - Posts

• Old Philip Factor's Almanac

  Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 3:54 PM | (Comments Off)
  
  

  Phil Factor presents his new-year's present to the SQL Server community; the Philip Factor Almanac of Prophesies for the coming year, written in SQL Server Read More by Phil Factor | (Comments Off) |

• Santa's SLA

  Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 9:47 AM | 3 Comments
  
  

  Phil Factor discovers that, when you sign a critical Service-Level agreement with your hardware supplier, you have to get out the magnifying glass, and get stuck into the small print. Read More by Phil Factor | 3 Comments | Comment on this post

• Much ado about Null

  Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 7:42 PM | 6 Comments
  
  

  One of the best ways to test the knowledge of a database programmer is to ask very simple questions. They are sometimes the hardest to answer succinctly. Read More by Phil Factor | 6 Comments | Comment on this post