Un-concatenating row values
/* Anith Sen's achievement, in his article 'Concatenating Row Values in Transact-SQL' has been to list and illustrate the many ways...
2008-10-06
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Phil Factor
- Interests: Motorbikes, Beer, gardening, conservation, Local history.
Never say 'never' to the WHILE loop.
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/* You might notice that I refer to Moby **** in this blog. This is because the busybodyish...
2008-10-02
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IT Project Euthanasia
A guest editorial from Phil Factor on the kindest way to dispose of unwanted IT projects.
2008-05-26
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Every DBA's nightmare
When a copy of all 25 million of the UK’s child benefit records, including bank details, went missing in the post, whilst being sent to the NAO (National Audit Office) on 18th October, the UK government must have known that a cover-up was impossible. This sort of incident is every DBA’s nightmare.
2007-11-26
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