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Paul White
Paul White
Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012 2:17 AM
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GilaMonster (1/26/2012)
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Backwards compatibility has a lot to answer for. I cringe slightly every time I see a variable-length data type used without an explicit maximum length value.
Only slightly?
I am practicing the art of understatement.
Paul White
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LuciaNewbie
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Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012 2:49 AM
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Good question.
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Koen Verbeeck
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Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:07 AM
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I thought such a basic question, which has appeared numerous times in the QotD, would have been easier, but apparently more than 50% - at the moment - still got it wrong.
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rfr.ferrari
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Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:28 AM
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good question!!!
thanks Gail!!!!
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mbova407
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Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012 5:22 AM
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Thanks for the question
Always a good reminder now and then.
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Thomas Abraham
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Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012 5:42 AM
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Nice one Gail. Always good when a question has a twist that's straightforward. (I almost went for 1 and 1, until I remembered ...) Thanks!
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Britt Cluff
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Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012 5:50 AM
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Good question, thansk for submitting.
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Mattrick
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Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:11 AM
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Good question, which illustrates the importance of defining the maximum data length.
Thanks,
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Data_God
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Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:17 AM
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One has to wonder at what point will Microsoft add configuration switches (defaulted to force developers to use correct variable declarations) that would allow you to either work with backwards compatibility for things like this versus causing an error because you have not explicitly set the length of your varchar / nvarchar variables for new development projects. IMHO, continuing to allow syntax such as this just allows old habits to continue to live on without indicating that you have code that really needs to be addressed.
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Daniel Bowlin
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Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:59 AM
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You would have gotten me if one of the answers was
123456789012345678901234567890 and
123456789012345678901234567890
but without that I had to dig a bit deeper.
Good question, thanks.
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