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Customers Don't Know What They Want

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This article on the JoelonSoftware site discusses project management and customer expectations. It has a great discussion of why non-technical users place so much value on what they can see (the GUI) while developers place so much value in what can't be seen (yeah, the code!). It's actually more interesting than that, take a look!

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2003-06-03

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Find Duplicate Employees, Customers, Etc.

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Customers, employees, etc. come and go.  They get entered multiple times in inconsistent formats in databases.This simple script finds the duplicates across multiple formats and is easily modified as needed.  It's so easy, my grandmother could do it. Oops! No offense Grandma.For very large databases, create and join two temp tables indexed on the namedatetring […]

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2003-05-30

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Dependency Walker

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Dependency Walker has been around for a while as part of Visual Studio. Have you tried it? Got the latest version? Andy does a very quick run through of what the product does, why you might need it, where to get the latest version, and why the new version is better than the old one (isn't it always?).

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2003-05-30

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Script to determine if all chars are same in field

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This script is a fix to the "Script to determine if all chars are same in field"posted by Harvard Kinkead (hneal_98) . That script doesn't handle strings with trailing spaces (e.g. set @repeat = 'bbbb ')It happens because of the nature of Len function. To bypass this limitation my script concatenates one character to tested […]

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2003-05-29

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Question of the Day

Too Many Choices

I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:

BrandID OfficialName
1       Samsung
2       Apple
3       Microsoft
4       Adidas
5       Coca-Cola
I run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel')
FROM dbo.MasterBrands;

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