Derrick Leggett Blog

Ramblings, grumblings, and other nonintelligible nonsense about SQL Server.

A table with a mind of it's own.

I ran across something today I have never encountered in SQL Server 2000; and thought I would share it with the poor souls unfortunate enough to read my blog. We had a process at work that was taking several hours to run (mainly because the stored procedures are written like crap), and about 5 days ago just stopped working. Read more →

Vendors….We shall slay them and take their precious.

Does anyone else have problems with lying, cheating, stealing vendors promising the world and delivering nothing??? We've been dealing with E&& for several months now and I can't say I've ever been more disappointed in a vendor that hires sales staff who know absolutely nothing about how the product REALLY WORKS. Read more →

Nested Triggers and Transactions

I ran across an interesting post on www.sqlteam.com that got me thinking about how transactions interact inside of nested triggers. Since I'm trying to study how transactions work in SQL Server anyway, I thought I would give this a try. Read more →

To bitch or not to bitch, that is the question.

Deleted due to intensely violent and graphical nature of post. (In other words, I don't want my boss to read it.) :) Legacy Comments Enigma 2004-03-29 re: To bitch or not to bitch, that is the question. Read more →