As many of you know, I’ve been working on the Lighthouse MIS platform for Vocational Education for quite some time now. It’s a large-scale legacy system built and designed to support vocational ...
[PROGRAMMERS REPORT, OCTOBER 8, 2002] -- Among the finger-pointing games in development today, none are more common than those accompanying the discussions between application developers and database ...
I recently wrote a .NET web application for work. I always make a data access class with methods for getting data, but I usually just point the methods to stored procedures. This time, I decided to ...
There’s a particular kind of dread that creeps in when a stored procedure runs longer than it should. You execute it once with small parameters. It finishes instantly. You execute it again with ...