Thinking about Code

OK let’s do a simple review here.  SQL Server 2005 was in development for what? Five years?  Give or take a year.  That is sixty months, or  1800+ days, however you want to look at it.   A good portion of that time was waiting for .NET 2.0 to  stabilize so that the CLR could be [...]

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I’ve been bumping into Billy Hollis at developer events for the last ten years.  Last time I saw him, we were riding in a taxi in Sydney Australia with a tremendous thunderstorm raging outside the cab.  If you know Billy, you know that he was telling stories — funny and profound, all the way back [...]

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