$$SWYNK$$ Featured Article(s) How Do You Transition from a Consulting Job Back to Management? I recently received a question regarding “How do you transition from a consulting job back into management?” This is a great topic, because the answer is useful whether you are moving from a consulting job back into IT, or management; OR moving from any field to […]

Azure Table Storage For those of you looking into NoSQL engines, Windows Azure Table Storage is another player in the mix. The main difference between Windows Azure Table Storage and other engines is that it is only supported inside the Windows Azure platform. If you wish to use it outside of Windows Azure, it is not available. How does it […]

SSWUGtv With Stephen Wynkoop On the show today we have Kevin Kline as he shares his thoughts on why Big Data is important Watch the Show Is it Time for ORMs? Object Relational Mapping tools have been around for years, and are still a controversial issue. Coming from a DBA background I find them to be both a friend and […]

Database Version Compatibility Today we have a couple comments that I found quite interesting. Robert talks about the ORDER BY clause in Views being supported, deprecated, and returned once again. Sanders shares thoughts about using features beyond those ANSI defines for SQL Engines. Robert writes: ORDER BY IN VIEWS! First it was there, then it was gone, then it was […]

Backwards Compatibility Backwards Compatibility is the mirror image of the problem introduced yesterday. The problem we have with Forward Compatibility is the ability to use new features, and emulate those features using creative techniques in older versions that do not support the new features. This goal is often not possible for one reason or another. An example of Forward or […]