I’m Mike Sherrill. I build.

Fontlingo.com is the hub for my professional activity. I have a passion for clean data and fast code. I’m a SQL database developer, web developer, and programmer. I’m well-known as a regular contributor to StackOverflow.com.

I build databases.

I have long experience in SQL database design, development, and administration. I’m familiar with Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2, and others. I’ve designed and developed both OLTP and OLAP database systems for many companies.

I build software.

I’m guided by “WTSTTDSUATWCSOT”. An initialism worthy of Mozart, it stands for “What’s the simplest thing that does something useful and that we can ship on Thursday.” The point is to build something useful quickly, get feedback from users, and immediately start improving it.

I build web sites.

I build web sites using a wide variety of technologies, including hand-coded html and css, client- and server-side frameworks, and content management systems. I’m familiar with many products like Laravel, Symfony, Phalcon, Bootstrap, Ember, skelJS, WordPress, and Joomla.

Analyze data with buckets

Use bucket tables to simplify SQL queries. Bucket tables are simple, fast, and scalable. How to build them and how to use them.

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Generate integers for SQL

Some platforms have intrinsic functions that generate sets of integers. For those that don’t, there are alternatives.

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