Solving tech problems

You will never reach the perfection

Thoughts

These are the chosen quotes dedicated to “Perfection” – you will never reach it and your life will pass beside you. There also interesting quotes for people who are afraid to make mistakes and some clever thoughts for hard workers (better work clever then work hard). Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. Strive for excellence, not perfection. If you can’t do what you want, do what you can. Good enough is good enough. The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision….read more

12.07.2014

Using SQL Server APPLY command in queries

Databases

APPLY clause in Transact-SQL is interesting because it can be user in the following scenario: For example, you might create a query that returns a list of payments (in this case last 2 payment amounts and dates) for each subscriber inside your SaaS product. You get something like this 958 Usain Jordan 2014-06-01 299.00 958 Usain Jordan 2014-07-18 458.00 110 Seagal KungFu 2014-01-12 15.16 110 Seagal KungFu 2014-03-06 17.45

08.07.2014

Wimbledon final and soft drink ads

Leisure and Pleasure, Thoughts

Watching right now Wimbledon men’s final between Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer (btw, hoping that Djokovic will win it). Almost every ad between games and sets are from producers of soft drinks (Nestea, Coca-Cola, Schweppes) and energy drinks (unknown RedBull competition). They are promising fun, health life, enjoyment and similar crap. If I can give you some advice in this area I can tell you just don’t buy anything like this. Think logically… If they have so much money to spend on advertisement in prime time of biggest sport events…read more

06.07.2014