We're getting close to the home stretch in my Working Effectively with Legacy SQL series. Today's post is all about obsolete SQL. Nothing kills a project more than oodles of unused code filling up the code base. When I started working with my current team, I was put in charge of approximately 800 stored procedures. Within…
The economy — stupid or not?
Fivethirtyeight has an excellent breakdown of the State of the Union address and what it actually means. tl;dr -- the economy is better off than mainstream Republicans claim but not as good as the Democrats claim. We're just about to pre-recession levels in a lot of areas. The flip side of the coin is "How…