And bring a towel. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you have homework. You know with that lead in I'm going to talk about AI. Sorry, can't help it. It's on my mind quite a lot. It's in the news, oh, a whole lot. The majority of those stories can be summed up […]
Acting with confidence is great, but how do you decide when there are potential impacts and concerns about your actions? Steve has a few thoughts today.
Generating temporary passwords is a common requirement in many applications. Users may need to reset a forgotten password, new accounts may require an initial password, or developers may generate test credentials. While password generation is often implemented in application code, doing it directly in SQL Server provides clear advantages. It centralizes the logic, ensures consistency […]
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Sometimes the problems aren't your code. Here a few places where re-examining your assumptions can help improve software development.
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