I was recently working with a database where there were a number of tables that *gasp* didn’t belong to dbo. Now this isn’t the end of the world, but best practices tend to lean towards making dbo the owner of new tables to avoid potential ownership permission issues.
Now I wouldn’t call myself lazy, but […]
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Expressly Oracle
13Jun07At my last job, I spent a considerable amount of time using SQL. I pretty much lived, ate, and breathed it. For good or for ill the engine that I learned on was Microsoft SQL Server, which wasn’t too bad to learn. At my current position I’m getting exposure to three flavors […]
I played around a little bit with Watir (Web Application Testing in Ruby) at my last job, but we never had a chance to really utilize it beyond some basic proof-of-concept type scripts. Now at my current job I’ve been working with Watij (Web Application Testing in Java), which shares the same principles as […]
PHP + MySQL = Fun ?
15Nov06So at work we’ve been looking around at the various types of test management tools that are out there. For the most part, in my most humble opinion, they all suck. This had led me down a dark, dark, path, paved in PHP and grouted with MySQL. I’ve been flushing out, conceptually […]
Mind-mapping?
08Nov06I was in a training class today at work, not so much for the training itself but more as a guinea pig to help them evaluate the course and materials.
Anyways, I brought my laptop in with me to perform the exercises and to use for taking notes since my handwriting has degraded to the point […]
