Phil Factor's Phrenetic Phoughts : February 2007

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February 2007 - Posts

The march of time

Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 9:43 AM | 2 Comments

Phil Factor tells the story of an aging programmer forced to change his profession, who discovered to his surprise that the grass on the other side of the fence really was greener. Read More

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'The C Language is a toy'.

Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 2:20 PM | 8 Comments

Phil Factor has witnessed many disasterous mistakes in the IT industry, and actually participated in a few. But the biggest mistake of all was intriguing because it still provides a message for the software industry today, and it is difficult not to sympathise with the victims. Read More

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February 2007

Using Powershell to Generate Table-Creation Scripts

For all of us who learn best by trying out examples, Bob Sheldon produces a PowerShell script file for... Read more...

Configuring Exchange Server 2007 to Support Information Rights Management

In Exchange Server 2007, Information Rights management is easy to set up once you have set up the... Read more...

SQL Response: The dim sum interview

Richard Morris met David and Nigel of the SQL Response team, in a dim sum Restaurant in Cambridge. They... Read more...

Why This SQL Server DBA is Learning Powershell

Ron describes how he decided to study Powershell as a single scripting system to automate all the... Read more...

Using Covering Indexes to Improve Query Performance

Designers of database systems will often assume that the use of a clustered index is always the best... Read more...