GUID’s – Never for Clustered Indexes
Globally Unique Identifiers have their place in software development. They’re great for identifying a library in the GAC or windows registry. They are, however, huge data types from the database...
View ArticleTo Proc or Not to Proc
I’ve had some interesting conversations and fun arguments about how to author queries for SQL Server Report Services (SSRS) reports. There are a lot of professionals out there who really want hard fast...
View ArticleI’m not a DBA, But I Play One on TV: Part 2 – CPU and RAM
In Part 1 I discussed SQL Server and Hard Disk configurations. Now let’s have a look at CPU and RAM. This topic is actually kind of easy. More is better… most of the time. CPU It’s my opinion that most...
View ArticleComing Home
Almost 2 months ago I had my first day at Avanade. For those of you who don’t know, Avanade was cerated as a join venture between Microsoft and Accenture. Avanade has thier own business development...
View ArticleCryptocurrency Mining Software and Pools
In “Mining Cryptocurrencies” I wrote briefly about CPU, GPU and ASIC mining. All of these mining methods require software to get work (the complicated math problem) from the Cryptocurrency’s network...
View ArticleA Personal Rant on Trading Bitcoin
I would say the summary of my trading practices thus far can be summed up into, “I’m an idiot.” It’s up. it’s down. Oh, my gosh I could have made $10k. Oh, no I’ve lost $300. Ack! What does everyone...
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