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I can finally sleep at night… January 23, 2006

Posted by techgrrl in Just for fun.
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I just finished reading a blog entry that dispells the myth that Microsoft SQL Server is just Sybase in a new package. While I don’t feel passionately about this, it is good information. I was a DBA for a Sybase SQL Anywhere 6.0 database in the late ’90s. Since then I’ve been working with Microsoft SQL Server. I’m interviewing for a job right now for a shop that uses Oracle. They have a full time DBA, which is really a blessing.

One of my former co-workers once told me that Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 was all Sybase code. Apparently, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 was mostly, if not all, new code. I thought the two products felt similar, but then again that could’ve been because they’re both DBMS. Well, I’m glad that we got that straightened out.

History of programming languages January 20, 2006

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Billy Hollis has written two very tongue-in-cheek histories of Basic and the C family of languages. Funny stuff.

Screen shots of SharePoint Designer 12 (formerly Front Page) January 19, 2006

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Word came out awhile ago that Microsoft planned to turn Front Page into a designer for SharePoint in the next release of Office. It looks like the new product isn’t that much different from Front Page. Maybe what they’re really changing is the way that SharePoint behaves once it has been modified using an editor.

There are some screen shots at Paul Thurrott’s site of the new SharePoint Designer.

Workflow is not new January 19, 2006

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I watched a video earlier on some of the new workflow features in SharePoint, and the statement was made in the video that workflow is new. Newsflash: workflow is not new. Just because we now have the technologies to manage workflow, it is not a new thing.

These technologies will help to create a more transparent, santized version of workflow free from all of the politics, turf control, and roadblocking caused by labor. Now instead of having $20,000 a year clerks creating bottlenecks in our processes, we’ll be hostage to $65k analysts trying to puzzle out the complexities of workflow technology.