{"id":521,"date":"2008-12-10T06:25:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T11:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=521"},"modified":"2008-12-10T06:25:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T11:25:55","slug":"how-to-bend-sql-to-the-whims-of-geekery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"How to bend SQL to the whims of geekery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedailywtf.com\/Articles\/Stupid-Coding-Tricks-The-TSQL-Madlebrot.aspx\">This<\/a> is even geekier than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticalc.org\/pub\/85\/asm\/math\/usgard\/\">plotting the Mandelbrot set on a TI-85<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedailywtf.com\/Articles\/Stupid-Coding-Tricks-The-TSQL-Madlebrot.aspx\">The T-SQL Mandelbrot<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedailywtf.com\/Articles\/Stupid-Coding-Tricks-The-TSQL-Madlebrot.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/tsql-mandelbrot.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/T-SQL\">T-SQL<\/a> is a database-centric programming language for Microsoft SQL Server.  It is used primarily for data processing, not for such geekery as drawing fractals.  So, my hat&#8217;s off to the creative re-imagining of this previously dull language.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=156\">(see also)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is even geekier than plotting the Mandelbrot set on a TI-85: The T-SQL Mandelbrot T-SQL is a database-centric programming language for Microsoft SQL Server. It is used primarily for data processing, not for such geekery as drawing fractals. So, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=521\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,35,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-math","category-tech","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}