Recently I was faced with taking over the maintenance of a complex series of functions and stored procedures that produced student transcripts. What I found amazing was that the code had a massive amount of business rules that it needed to implement, yet it still ran incredibly fast. The creator of the code is my good friend Richard Waddell, and he took it for granted that the code would work so well. If I were faced with the same challenges he had, I doubt that I would have been able to succeed as well as he did. However, after studying his style and realizing that he basically follows 4 basic rules, I feel I can create any complex SQL that is easily maintainable and runs fast and efficiently.

You can visually create Bots using the Microsoft Bot Framework Composer . The Microsoft Bot Framework Composer is a GitHub project that you download and run locally . Bots are created by defining intents … Intents can be mapped to dialogs that you can visually design . You can launch the the Bot Framework Emulator from the application. The emulator allows you to test and debug...