I don't know about that Cross Country test, Steve.

Getting a beer is one thing. That's an hour or two of chatting, at a bar or other public place.

Cross Country...

Some of these certainly bring back some not-so-wonderful memories of interviews I've conducted in the past...

Obviously, lots of "stretching the truth", but I've also encountered weird variants of this. ...

Hmmmm... Do we really care about human readability? I don't think so...

http://www.oceaninformatics.biz/publications/e2.pdf

My understanding is that this:

<foo>     <bar>ontuhnote</bar>     </foo>

Can come back out as this:

<foo><bar>ontuhnote</bar></foo>

But I don't believe that this:

<foo><bar>    ontuhnote    </bar></foo>

Would ever come back out as this:

<foo><bar>ontuhnote</bar></foo>

(I just tried a few similar examples...

AFAIK, that's one of the "benefits" of the XML datatype -- it internally optimizes the XML. So the semantic meaning will be exactly the same, but the formatting might...

Ahhh! Are you working for Scalability Experts? Or did they drop the DBA track?

Where are you giving all of these presentations? Between you and Wesley there have been at least 40+ presentations in the last three months... Are there that many user...

I see Database Mirroring as one of the most important enhancements in SQL Server 2005. It means that SQL Server can compete against Oracle in much more challenging HA...

That's not the only news. Did you read the article or the post on my blog?

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http://www.sqljunkies.com/WebLog/amachanic/archive/2005/09/14/16741.aspx

Sorry Steve

Should I scoop you, Steve???

Anyone in the beta program has now received an e-mail about this, so it's open for discussion.

Hint: The topic du jour High Availability...

Nope, that's not it... It has to do with...

I'm in.

Similar, perhaps, with several key differences:

1) Managed code vs. unmanaged code -- means that CLR routines are safer than XPs.

2) XPs are created per server. CLR routines are created...

By the way, for best practices the answer should have included a column list in the INSERT INTO:

INSERT INTO MyTable (id, numA, numA)

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