29 Aug 2012
A giant leap towards the cashless society
Back in 1999, the Y2K panic was reaching its peak. Sadly, it was even starting to consume a few noted national Christian leaders (James Dobson included), which was a little disheartening. And every church I knew had appointed some person within the congregation as the church’s Y2K representative, whether that person had any real knowledge […]
20 Aug 2012
When a loop is not a loop
In an earlier post, I showed how to rethink the traditional MS-SQL CURSOR logic pattern, to minimize the number of maintenance points for FETCH statements (The lost art of break and continue). That post covered the while() { … } loop. Another equally-useful variant is the do { … } while() loop, which also supports the […]