Author: Ben Taylor

Editorials

What Tool Should You Learn Next?

What Tool Should You Learn Next? As a follow on to yesterdays editorial about keeping your skills current I wanted to consider how to choose what skills to keep current. I have been following a thread regarding which language is better, C# or VB.net. I don’t have an answer, and none of the responders to the thread had any definitive […]

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Take Control of Your Ongoing Education

SelecTViews: With Stephen Wynkoop Find out the latest news involving EMC’s ProSphere, Microsoft’s lifecycle plan for Windows XP and more. [Watch the Show] Take Control of Your Ongoing Education As a follow-up of the last editorial, I would like to provide some ideas of how you can keep your skills current without relying on your employer. Realistically, your employer is […]

Editorials

Take Control of Your Ongoing Education

SelecTViews: With Stephen Wynkoop Find out the latest news involving EMC’s ProSphere, Microsoft’s lifecycle plan for Windows XP and more. [Watch the Show] Take Control of Your Ongoing Education As a follow-up of the last editorial, I would like to provide some ideas of how you can keep your skills current without relying on your employer. Realistically, your employer is […]

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Keeping Current in a Rapidly Changing World

PowerPivot Expo – Today Thanks to everybody who signed up to attend our eight virtual sessions on PowerPivot! We’re kicking off the event at 9 a.m. Pacific, so if you forgot to register, come on in and join in all the Business Intelligence-focused fun. Sign up today Keeping Current in a Rapidly Changing World It’s time to take control of […]

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Keeping Current in a Rapidly Changing World

PowerPivot Expo – Today Thanks to everybody who signed up to attend our eight virtual sessions on PowerPivot! We’re kicking off the event at 9 a.m. Pacific, so if you forgot to register, come on in and join in all the Business Intelligence-focused fun. Sign up today Keeping Current in a Rapidly Changing World It’s time to take control of […]

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All-In-One and One for All

PowerPivot Expo – Tomorrow At one of the largest Business Intelligence-focused virtual events of the summer, SSWUG.ORG is hosting eight sessions on PowerPivot! Learn from experts such as Mark Tabladillo, Brian Knight, Jen Underwood and others about organizing, connecting and manipulating tables of large data sets. If you want to attend, you should! After all, it’s free to attend the […]

Editorials

All-In-One and One for All

PowerPivot Expo – Tomorrow At one of the largest Business Intelligence-focused virtual events of the summer, SSWUG.ORG is hosting eight sessions on PowerPivot! Learn from experts such as Mark Tabladillo, Brian Knight, Jen Underwood and others about organizing, connecting and manipulating tables of large data sets. If you want to attend, you should! After all, it’s free to attend the […]

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Composition and Inheritance Wrap up

Composition and Inheritance Wrap up I have been very pleased with the response to the topic of when to use Composition and when to use Inheritance. The responses demonstrate that SSWUG is valued by an audience much broader than just database professionals. Ian shares some thoughts that wrap up this topic very nicely. Your example of a Car inheriting from […]

Editorials

Composition and Inheritance Wrap up

Composition and Inheritance Wrap up I have been very pleased with the response to the topic of when to use Composition and when to use Inheritance. The responses demonstrate that SSWUG is valued by an audience much broader than just database professionals. Ian shares some thoughts that wrap up this topic very nicely. Your example of a Car inheriting from […]

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Composition or Inheritance Followup

Composition or Inheritance Followup Some of the responses from the editorial yesterday really help clarify the question of when to use Composition or Inheritance. Here are a few of the responses I received yesterday. Ed: I found your brief discussion of inheritance vs composition really interesting, but I think it missed two key questions that should govern the decision. 1) […]