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Friday, October 10, 2008 12:00 PM

Log Buffer #118: a Carnival of the Vanities for the DBA

UPDATED 16 Oct 2008 to fix a broken link. UPDATED 10 Oct 2008 to reflect Giuseppe's comment . Welcome to installation #118 of Log Buffer , the weekly review of database blogs. Today, we’re gonna party like it’s 1999 ! For those of you who might be new
Posted by Ward Pond | 6 Comments
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:15 PM

Pond's Seventh Law Inspires a Question: Elegance Serving Randomness

Marc left a great question on a Pond's Laws post from July of 2006 : Hi, I have a flashcard system that randomly pulls a word from the database. I also have a testing module that allows a user to test him or her self on words. For each word the user answers
Posted by Ward Pond | 1 Comments
Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:00 PM

Are You Paying To Read This Post? You Don't Have To!

In the age of the blog, it may well be that republishing is the sincerest form of flattery. The same RSS technology that many of you use to read the blog through wonderful rollers like this one also can be turned to far more nefarious purposes. I'm going
Posted by Ward Pond | 6 Comments
Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:30 PM

Pond's Seventh Law, Applied Again

[ UPDATED 17 August 2007: the first story turns out to be a hoax , which places the second one in doubt as well. Please consider this a parable rather than a reportage] A colleague sent along an email earlier today which, at its root, strikes me as a
Posted by Ward Pond | 6 Comments
Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:45 AM

Database Programming: TOP Without ORDER BY?

Egad, a technical post! And after I'd already said goodbye for the month. A long time ago, a friend taught me that expectations are small murders. What does that make plans? At any rate, Peter asked a FAQ on one of the internal discussions this morning,
Posted by Ward Pond | 6 Comments
Saturday, July 29, 2006 2:30 PM

Pond's Seventh Law, Applied: Avoiding Random Elegance

Another application of Pond's Laws comes to light from an exchange on an internal SQL Server discussion list. My good friend and colleague John Huschka, a Senior Software Development Engineer for Microsoft Business Solutions' FRx Software Corporation,
Posted by Ward Pond | 4 Comments
Friday, July 21, 2006 12:15 AM

Pond’s Eleventh Law Emerges From Reflection Upon The Perils Of Going Fast

When I first published Pond’s Laws, I promised it would be a living document. Herewith is the first evidence.
Posted by Ward Pond | 1 Comments
Friday, April 14, 2006 12:00 AM

Pond's Laws of System Design (or, How To Be A Competent Professional In An Irrational World)

A philosophical discussion of the mindset of a professional applications developer.
Posted by Ward Pond | 9 Comments
Friday, December 09, 2005 5:30 PM

Database Design: A Brief Rant About Quality

If you could save your company $225 million in ten minutes, would you?
Posted by Ward Pond | 1 Comments
 
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