The Unusable User–Question Of The Day

My latest question The Unusable User is live today over at SQLServerCentral. It’s a three pointer, how is that for an incentive to give it a try? Here are the early stats, it’s definitely a hard question (or badly written? nah): I’ll post follow up on thoughts on this one later in the […]

More On Alas Snapshot

Hopefully you had a chance to answer the Alas Poor Snapshot, I Knew Him Well question of the day than ran yesterday. Overall the comments on the question were positive, it was interesting (and intuitive I guess) to see that the detailed explanation of all the answers was appreciated. So far about 900 people have […]

Alas, Poor Snapshot, I Knew Him Well (Question Of the Day)

My latest question of the day is up, this one called Alas, Poor Snapshot, I Knew Him Well. If you’ve got 5 minutes go give it a try and let me know what you think, with comments on the question or here.

Some Notes On Writing A Question Of The Day

I wrote Write The Perfect Question (Of The Day) last week and yesterday dropped a note here about my latest question, Schema Renaming Fun. I’ve got a couple more in the pipeline (The Unusable User, and Alas Poor Snapshot, I Knew Him Well). Lessons learned/thought of so far: Make the case consistent on the queries, […]

Schema & Renaming Fun

I wrote the SQLServerCentral question of the day that is live today called Schema & Renaming Fun. Mildly interesting, but looking back at it a couple weeks after writing it not my favorite – feels a bit convoluted. If you read the comments (after trying to answer the question!), you’ll see two places where I […]

Write The Perfect Question (Of The Day)

Have you ever voted against something only to be glad later you got out voted? Too many years ago the idea of a question of the day for SQLServerCentral came up for discussion. I was against the idea not because it was a bad idea, but because it is one more thing to do every […]