Broker Challenge: 0; Me: 1
Just like Steve Hebert did the other day, when the post appeared about the Broker Challenge, I knew it was something I wanted to play with. I'm not a huge SQL guy (yes, I'm pretty huge, but I'm certainly not made of S's, Q's, and L's - there's some lard in there too) but I do need it everyday in most of my coding.
The changes that Yukon is bringing in are immense, there's so much I just don't know where to start. So a chance to have fun while learning this stuff (especially the Service Broker, it's been something I've been wanting to find out more about) was too good an opportunity to miss.
So on the weekend, I had a play. I have to say, I'm very impressed by this whole Service Broker thing. To complete the challenge, I never wrote a line of real code - only TSQL (because TSQL is, after all, a second class language, way below the quality of .net *grin*). The hard part is coming to term with the concepts involved, as I'd never touched it before, and of course the SQL Books Online weren't complete, so there were a couple of doco pages that I really wanted to the examples section of but it hadn't been completed.
But I did it. Yay me! AND I'm responsible of the insertion of the bit on the challenge description page that's highlighted in red text! (I really got stumped for a while there - everything should have been working and I'd missed one tiny little detail :)
Oh, and the most important part is seeing someone else's name on the Hall of Fame page that I recognise (Scott Allen), and I beat him there. Nyah nyah nyah!
Listening to: guess i'm doing fine - beck - (4:49)