I have just bought myself a new laptop, but it is not just any laptop it is a Microsoft Surface Book . I think this is probably the first time I have bought myself a top of the range laptop and after a few days of use I am loving it. The Surface Book is the latest in Microsoft’s Surface line of tablets but the first...
One of my plans is to create new MVC Webapps for my companies databases. Once I publish these I will need to secure them so only staff have access. The traditional way to do this would be insert membership tables into my database. The user then has to remember another username and password and I have to secure the...
I spend an awful lot of my working life adding new features and improvements to a legacy database system. A legacy system is an old method, technology, computer system, or application program, “of, relating to, or being a previous or outdated computer system.” Often a pejorative term, referencing a system as “legacy”...
Episode Title: The Best of Both Worlds Star Trek Type: TNG Original Air Date: 18 June 1990 & 24 September 1990 Written By: Michael Piller Directed By: Cliff Bole The Borg threaten the Federation, when they kidnap Captain Picard and destroy a fleet of 39 Starships. Luckily some original thinking from Commander Riker...
Today I did a clone of one of my git repositories and it took ages to download. Looking into what got downloaded it was easy to see why. The .git folder was over 500Mb in size. I know how this has happened. This repository was created in 2013 and has been used by me as a dumping ground for lots of things related to the...
Like many DBAs I spend a lot of time maintaining my SQL Server backups. From SQL Server I maintain both full backups and transaction log backups. I have often restored my full backups but until recently I have never restored a transaction log backup. All backup strategy’s are only as good as the last time you tested...
I spend a lot of my time creating new features that simplify my companies business processes. A good example of this is an invoicing system I created. Instead of users working off different spreadsheets and copying and pasting data between various different programs the user can click a couple of buttons and...
Episode Title: Arena Star Trek Type: TOS Original Air Date: 19 January 1967 Teleplay: Gene L Coon Story By: Frederic Brown Directed By: Joseph Pevney The episode begins with the Enterprise in orbit of Cestus III. Commodore Travers requests a tactical team join the away team. When the away team beam down Cestus III has...
Over the Christmas break the city of York experienced the worst flooding disaster it has seen in recent years. If you want to help donations are being taken at York Flood Appeal . Luckily I wasn’t affected but it was really sad seeing many of my favourite streets full of water. Thousands of people had to be evacuated...
In 1966 a TV show called Star Trek first aired in the USA. Since then 726 episodes have been made and 12 films have been released. 2016 marks the 50th anniversary and Star Trek is as alive as ever with a new film due out this summer and a brand new TV series in the works for broadcast in 2017. But what can I do to...