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May 11 2010

Unbest Practices #1 – Comments Full of Awesome

I love seeing good documentation in code.  I really love seeing honest documentation in code.  Seeing comments that basically show the developer has given up, hacked together a poor workaround to get a tasked accomplished at the cost of performance for every customer… full of Awesome.  This is slightly redacted code from a stored procedure [...]

By sqlagentman • SQL, Syndicated • • Tags: SQL, Unbest Practices, Vendors

Apr 9 2010

In All Fairness…

I often rail against Third Party Vendors in my posts here and also on Twitter and on any other virtual stump I can climb onto.  It is refreshing when I have conversations like I just had with a technical representative from a software developer whose product we have purchased and used for a number of [...]

By sqlagentman • Rants, SQL N00B Crew, Syndicated • • Tags: SQL N00B Crew, Vendors

Jul 16 2009

Professional Courtesy Is Not Full of Suck

An excellent post by K. Brian Kelley about a vendor so full of suck it’s scary.

By Timothy • Professional Development, Rants, SQL, SQL Server Central Articles, Syndicated, Tech • • Tags: SQL Server Central (Not full of Suck), Things that are full of suck, Vendors

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