Last week I attended a management/leadership workshop for two days and this week I spent another two days in leadership training. This week it was Basics for Team Leaders, which covered the majority of Team Leader-ish things we need to know. Not surprisingly, I learned a lot. Some of it was administrative: what we need…
Found: Rows from a Merge Join
About a month ago I blogged about an issue I had with a customer where a search in one area of our application returned less data than expected, and a search in a different area of the application returned the proper amount of data. I was able to work around the issue by dropping a…
Some Errors Are Not What They Seem
For the past few months I have been following a customer issue that started way back in November of last year (2010). The customer is one of my personal favorites. Our application is business critical in their environment. If it isn’t available, employees have nothing to do. The database is large – nearly a terabyte…
Leadership and Mentoring
I am spending two days this week participating in a management/leadership workshop provided by my company. It’s an interesting experience for me; when I was considering career paths, managing people never crossed my mind. I like to do things. I like to learn. I like developing relationships with people, and I like helping people. But…
