Monthly Archives: November 2011

The Seattle Seahawks and the power of winning each single game

Sunday marked the end of the Seattle Seahawks 2011 season. Not literally the end of their season, but rather the end of any playoff hopes they might have had. For the next few weeks they will only be playing to win single games, and all of the media will be talking about how each win reduces their draft status. Read more »

Playing With Hierarchies

In our world of data, often times we come across data that represents a hierarchical structure.  I recently was asked to work on a design that would utilize the hierarchyid datatype that was introduced in SQL Server 2008.

Our task was to bulk load multiple nodes of a hierarchy into a single table structure, with the possibility of having multiple parents.  Since multiple parents are not supported in the hierarchyid datatype, I had some creative work ahead of me.

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Goose!

Sometimes he is a pain, but I do love this silly cat.

Goose

Goose Sleeping

Starting this blogging thing again….

Well, I’m starting this blogging thing again, we will see where it goes.  I just feel like I need an outlet for all the things in my head, no matter if anyone ever reads it.

Till Next Time,
-Mike