In a sense, you could call me lazy. If there’s a script that will perform a task for me, I’d rather use that script than reinvent another wheel. Then again, if needs be, I’d rather spend a day writing such a script, rather than spending ten minutes just getting the job done.
Somehow, that makes me a happier developer.
Here’s an interesting feature I found in the code of a colleague the other day. A common task in T-SQL is eliminating duplicate records. This became a lot easier with the introduction of windowed functions way back in SQL Server 2005, such as ROW_NUMBER(), but it turns out, I’ve still been missing out on a really simple and cool solution.