Open Source Java
Eric has entry on the future of Java now that Sun's new leader is talking about letting go. I have always felt that if Sun hadn't stopped Microsoft innovating their JVM that we would all be Java programmers by now and the language debate would be mute.
Stored Procedures with no results
I've been having a problem with big hairy report that I have been writing. The T-SQL for the report involved creating a cursor, traversing the cursor and inserting records into a temporary table. Because it was big and ugly I wrapped it up in a stored proc. The problem was that when I deployed the report and ran it from our Visual Basic app using ADO to execute the stored proc, it failed giving an error that basically said that it did not get any results back. The strange thing was that it worked fine against SQL 2005, but failed on SQL 2000! Actually that's not all that strange, SQL 2005 has fixed so many things that didn't work in SQL 2000, but that's another post.