technology, simplified… simplification…. Keeping in simple… hmmmmmm…. This reminds me, I recently had a homework assignment from my technology business owners group to read a book (that I first read many years ago) by Stephen Covey titled First Things First. Now for me, I generally like Covey’s books, but they are not the most exciting [...]

In one of the projects I’m currently working on, I have to handle multiple SQL operations in one transaction, so if anything goes wrong in a particular operation, things done in previous operations can be rolled back automatically.  This can be done by using Transaction in a Stored Procedure directly, but you might lose some [...]

Ever since the Mac “Switcher” ads have come out, Microsoft has been struggling with how to respond. Their first instinct was to just ignore them. This was probably not the best response, and it went on for a long time. I’m guessing that they believed that Apple held such a small percentage of the market [...]

I arrived at a client’s office one Monday morning only to find absolute chaos. We had users and applications on servers giving the lovely “Cannot Generate SSPI Context” error all across the organization. At first I wasn’t too worried.  I instantly assumed DNS was the culprit, as this SQL server has been in production for  [...]

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