RE: How to get the monday of every week

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June 22, 2017 at 8:44 pm

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Ed Wagner - Thursday, June 22, 2017 3:42 PM
Jeff Moden - Thursday, June 22, 2017 1:57 PM
jcelko212 32090 - Thursday, June 22, 2017 12:43 PM
For example, you might be coded "MP" and not be a Member of Parliament, but actually a "male pseudo-hermaphrodite" instead.). .
BWAAA-HAAA! Maybe you might, but not me. 😉
Crazy world. They even have standards about how to have meetings to decide how to write standards about how to write standards. Considering how poorly many of the standards have been written, especially in the areas of implementation and enforcement, I'm very happy that I don't actually have to deal with any of them anymore.
AMEN to that! Some people are so obsessed with standards that they forget to get the work done.

I'm all for good standards. The ANSI/ISO standards are great standards. Since the manufacturers of RDBMS systems don't follow those standards and the standards are frequently missing important features and methods as are the various RDBMSs themselves (not to mention even a standardization on the declaration of variables, for example) making true portability and certain supposed "best practices" a myth, the standards should be used as a guide and not gospel.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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