July 2004 - Posts

• The things you learn at conventions

  I haven't posted in a while because I spent all of last week in Boston, MA, the latter half of which for the annual convention of the National Puzzlers' League . The convention was fun, and I'll make some time soon to tell you more about it and the other Read More... Posted Friday, July 16, 2004 1:18 AM by TribalLibrarian | 3 Comments

• Mastering T-SQL subtleties the hard way

  Every once in a while, I think I know exactly what the code that I'm writing is doing, and then I discover, often through some catastrophe, that I didn't quite understand all the details. One particularly instructive (or would that be destructive ?) example Read More... Posted Thursday, July 01, 2004 12:36 AM by TribalLibrarian | 7 Comments