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Dynamic SQL vs Stored Procedures
I bet all application development team had a debate on whether to use Stored Procedures or Dynamic SQL statements during their development. I read Bil Simser's blog on this and also Rob's blog and Frans Bouma's blog. What a lengthy feedback/comments and it defintely took a while for me to read everything but it is worth reading.
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Other side of the table
I never interviewed anybody for a technical position and currently as one of my team member left our team, I was assigned to hire a asp.net developer position for our team. It is quite a experience as you need to filter the resume based on our requirement. I interviewed three guys so far and still did not find a good fit. Sometimes, I used to think whether I am so picky. But my questions are simple and all I need is a direct answer. This process made me think like how I would act if I am in other side of the table! Today I got to interview one person who played lots of managerial role in various project and only know the basic concepts of asp.net but this position requires serious asp.net skill and so I was not comfortable in asking some of the asp.net specific questions to him (when I know that he is not going to answer)