My experience working in the industry has been great. I've spent the vast majority of the past six years working on various projects for various small-medium businesses, so i've been...

I'm going to echo the need for better search/article organization. It would be great to have a 'definitive' article on particular subject (as picked by the SSC user-base). My best...

Michael Meierruth (4/20/2010)

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Wayne,

You state what I always wanted to hear stated, i.e. that ROW_NUMBER()'s ORDER BY is not the same as the SELECT's ORDER BY. Yet, always - haven't encountered...

i also found myself getting worked up over Microsoft saying "screw standards" yet again.

Oh, Steve. You get me every year.

I'm forcibly reminded of the recent Verizon Fios commercial, with the Cable guy asking at the focus group:

"I'm curious why we're listening to customers. That seems dumb."

cengland0 (11/9/2009)

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I almost selected option 6 and then when I double checked my answers, I noticed the tricky char(10) which isn't big enough to fit the whole 'Date is Null'...

there's only one real choice for Phil Factor...:-D

GSquared (8/5/2009)

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You also have to assess the cost of protecting it.

If your company loses an average of one laptop per year, and spends an extra $100k per year on encrypting...

I read between 20 and 30 books a year, almost all of them fiction for entertainment. i don't have a kindle or other e-reader.

i think amazon messed up big time....

From the article (Bell speaking):

This is a memory surrogate, so I think of a machine as a memory aid and then, incidentally, your life ends up there as a residue...

I don't think Steve meant to suggest that blogging or forum posting will get you a job on it's own; merely that it can help.

for instance: a new dba position...

I have a habit of playing the drum parts to whatever i'm listening to by tapping my heels and toes. usually i listen to metal or progressive rock, since the...

i'm terrible with documentation. i put descriptions into procedures in a comment block up top and have additional brief descriptions for the business functionality of discrret sections within them. i...

hear hear

you could stand between the candle and the flame...