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February 2009 - Posts

• Beware Moving Parts

  My faithful readers will remember one of my orginal posts in which I expressed my enthusiasm for a new phone I was planning on purchasing, the Pantech Matrix . Well, tragedy struck today when, for no apparent reason, the slider keyboard no longer functions. Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2009 6:36 PM by timbenninghoff | 0 Comments Filed under: Technology

• Expandable!

  When I start to learn a new technology, I find I learn best if I jump right in, get my hands dirty, and play around with it for a while. After a couple initial ah-HA moments and early successes, I inevitably hit a wall where I can't seem to solve a particular Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:46 PM by timbenninghoff | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, PowerShell

• Things You Know Now...

  Jeremiah Peschka tagged me in recent blog post, asking me about things I know now, not necessarily SQL related, that I wish I'd known when I started my 'professional career'. Here's my stab at it: Almost Nobody Knows What They Want To Be When They Grow Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6:39 PM by timbenninghoff | 1 Comments

• Semantically Equivalent?

  I was helping some developers with their upgrade of an ISV application, when we hit a snag. It seems that our installation of the application had columns defined as binary(8) when the standard data structure called for timestamp. I seemed to recall that Read More... Posted Thursday, February 05, 2009 6:07 PM by timbenninghoff | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server 2000