Last night I attended the CbusPASS (that’s the Columbus chapter of the Professional Association for SQL Server, aka the Columbus SQL Server Users Group) meeting. I’m not using SQL Server much these days so the take home value isn’t immediate for me. I’m interested in databases in general, I have used SQL Server in the [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2009’
Thoughts on TDD
I want to know what the buzz around Test-Driven Development is all about. The proponents make a good case for it. I’ve read about it a good bit but have never worked with anyone who practiced it. I also tend to be leery when I see people becoming religiously fanatical about anything, and some of [...]
Pair Networks Database Backup Automation
I have a couple WordPress blogs, this being one of them, hosted at Pair Networks. I also have another non-blog site that uses a MySQL database. I have been doing backups of the databases manually through Pair’s Account Control Center (ACC) web interface on a somewhat regular basis, but it was bugging me that I [...]