Even though SQL Server 2000 is no longer officially supported by Microsoft, quite a few SQL 2K databases still exist in production environments. One that had been giving me trouble for a couple of days was intermittently causing a web app to fail, and the error message indicated that the failure due to either a … Read more
It should come as no surprise to anyone who has developed for multiple browsers that each one has its own quirks when it comes to enforcing standards, whether they be CSS, HTML5, or even JavaScript. I have been working on some JavaScript that will take a date (in the DATETIME format) from SQL Server and … Read more
I get new applications to work on fairly regularly, and I have found that almost none of them have databases that are normalized to the third normal form. (Shocking, I know.) One that I recently inherited appears to store email addresses in multiple tables instead of in a single table with the user’s other information. … Read more