Month: August 2016

How do you want to be remembered?

Have you ever thought about your own obituary?  (I apologize for the morbid thought.)  Dying is something we're all going to do someday.  When that day arrives, what kind of a legacy do you want to leave behind? This week, I had the misfortune of attending two different wakes for two different people.  Interestingly, I … Continue reading How do you want to be remembered?

#SQL101: On data types

Previously, I talked about something I saw in the code that built the tables in my baseball database.  I wrote last time about primary keys.  In this article, I want to talk about data types. Let's revisit the code that builds the Batting table again. CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Batting]( [playerID] [varchar](50) NULL, [yearID] [varchar](50) NULL, [stint] … Continue reading #SQL101: On data types

What music taught me about being a professional

They say learning music improves cognitive skills, and I definitely understand the correlation.  I've been playing music my entire life.  Reading a score is like a computer reading a program; there are notes (that correlate to instructions), dynamics (attributes), repeats and D.S./D.C. instructions (loops), and so on.  (If you want to take the programming analogy … Continue reading What music taught me about being a professional