Ryans WebLog

OK, it's been so long since my last blog that I'm surprised my last blog is still here! I am, however, glad it still is, and whilst this might not be the most revolutionary entry, I hope you find it useful. So the scenerio is this: I have a database that...

Wow - time flies, I really can't beleive its been 3 weeks since I last looked at this blog. To follow up on some of the feedback I got, here is a summarey of the post I was discussing. Its a re-hash of the actual posting from OJ, but it should give you...

Hi, this is my opening blog. I intend to use this space to discuss my SQL 2000 exploits, and to build up some blogging experience. As an opener, I'd like to describe a scenerio I've seen in news group posts - 'execution of a stored procedure as a view...

Just chatting yesterday about quick wins in code reviews and the subject of de-duping code came up. Even recently I was in a project where two of us implemented the same checking logic at different tiers of the application (replace that with layers if...

I recently had an issue where I had a general search procedure which took a comma delimited list of search terms, and I wanted to data mine the combination of the parameter values called in production, to establish things such as most popular searches...

PhotoSynth is absolutley worth checking out - my first synth of Lulworth Cove went incredibly well. Subsequent synths haven't correlated so well. You can check it out here