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Re: Complexity, Requirements and The Perfect Cup Of Tea

Darin — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:19:20 -0000

Hello Brian,
Just a quick message to ask if you would be interested in a ‘mutual’ following on twitter. I am currently following you now and am awaiting for your follow-back. (#FYI I do RT’s ‘anytime’ for all #Triathletes #Cyclists #UltraRunners #Marathoners #FitnessProfessionals who follow me on Twitter and have something important they want mentioned for support…)

All the very best for 2013 & beyond Brian. Look forward to hearing from you…

Darin
twitter.com/DarinArmstrong
#TeamLIVESTRONG

Re: Complexity, Requirements and The Perfect Cup Of Tea

David Lazarus — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:00:25 -0000

Scaling at this level will cause multiple issues. My recommendation: http://www.johnlewis.com/23...

Re: Who needs values these days?

Phillip Abbott — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:27:42 -0000

It's usually tough enough to get developers to list their parameters in line with the index but this obviously takes a step further the need to be very accurate with what you ask for.

Re: Hot air extraction – more efficient server room cooling

Andrew of Yorkshire — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:50:31 -0000

Does the piping plug directly to the back of the servers, taking air from the server fans. Or do they hang unconnected and scoop up air in the general area?

Re: viewmessages.com Architecture

Andrew of Yorkshire — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:45:19 -0000

Hello @briandrought what are you up to?

Re: Managing clients patched calls with a single click

Andrew of Yorkshire — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:42:16 -0000

Hello Mr @Brian Drought

Re: viewmessages.com Architecture

Brian Drought — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:58:33 -0000

Testing mention of @fl600 to see what happens...

Re: Re-inventing the spell checker

Andrew Falkingbridge — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:31:07 -0000

Very interesting approach. How did you arrive at the weightings - have you tried tweaking them? Also some opportunity here to introduce a naive Bayes classifier to make educated guesses on the 3 word tuples? And how about looking to correct grammar as well as spelling - so that you don't get "a lot" written in such a way it refers to the mythical beast?

Re: Making the ‘New Message Alert’ slicker with jQuery AJAX

James — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:30:25 -0000

makes perfect sense to me

Re: Who needs values these days?

Tim Skipper — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:36:50 -0000

Hey Brian! I found this post quite by random and as it happens I'm having the *exact same* issue with paramterised queries running madly slow compared to a straight SQL query, at one of my client sites.

I'm going to get my devs to go pull the code and see if it's the same param type issue.

Thanks for the post! (and congrats, by the way)

Tim.

Re: Partitioning Data in SQL

Phillip Abbott — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:58:26 -0000

Is it better to have one large table or lots of little ones? Given both options wouldn't differ that greatly in space usage what are the advantages of splitting data out? I can only really see the increased dependencies and complexity between your code and your data. Add in multiple indexes on each table and it all sounds exponentially more difficult to maintain.

Re: Partitioning Data in SQL

Andrew — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:14:02 -0000

What are you trying to achieve?

Would be better to do in SQL rather than ASP?

Have a table of Companies
With some fields of: CompanyName, CompanyID (as GUID)

The CompanyID then is your hash function (good enough for these purposes)

Then when a new company is added use ASP or StoredProc to allocate the next free DB / Table combo (using simple counters from a reference data table).

Then when doing the select do two pre-selects to get the Table and DB for the CustomerGUID in question.

Concatenate these into the SELECT statements.

Done.

But I still don't know what you are trying to achieve. SQL can work very well on humongous data sets. Take a look at query analyzer and tuning tools (y)

Re: Every guy needs a picture of a rocketship on his wall.

Andrew — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:21:52 -0000

Brilliant pic, I might have to order a copy. I don't recall a gift shop when I was there, otherwise the plastic would have taken a hit! I like your musings too.

Re: Every guy needs a picture of a rocketship on his wall.

Carl — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:14:44 -0000

Awesome pic mate.
Shame you didn't take it :)

Re: Every guy needs a picture of a rocketship on his wall.

Sam — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:14:32 -0000

Wow! What an amazing picture. And some interesting thoughts drawn out of it.

Re: Tweaking the Message Review Page

Sarah — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:01:09 -0000

Pretty nice post. I just found your site and wanted to say
that I've really liked reading your blog posts. Any way
I'll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you write again soon!