i regret not taking a year break after High School before going to college.

I went to a public high school that had a solid reputation and a 97% acceptance/attendance rate...

this is getting surreal.

i'd always considered him more of a moderate radical....

actually...

"Moderation in all things, especially moderation."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is the perfect resource for Temp Table/Table Variable comparisons as far as i'm concerned. The graph is a particularly useful quick reference.

Well done, and many thanks.

I always wonder what that research funding actually goes to; it never seems to be the 'next big thing'. When Microsoft comes out with something really new and innovative it...

This strikes me as a great approach to use for high-quality, (almost) self-documenting code.

I think the overhead of time and effort, at least when one is first implementing this technique,...

I'm pretty skeptical myself. Ignoring for now the security/privacy concerns inherent in third-party data storage, performance would (i think) be a major issue.

I've been in a siutuation with some similarity...

I think some of you have a backwards perspective on this (no offense).

I always set aside time for myself everyday, and i'm pretty ruthless about it. Whether it's so i...

I wish i had that problem. I've never been completely satisified with a...

misdirected youths. they should be testing their mettle against something more interesting and worthwhile, like pulling data out of Chinese Military Defense systems or something.

Defacing/attacking a community website? Pointless at...

FROM THE INTERVIEW SITE...

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Think about that for a minute. It computes the answers. Wolfram Alpha doesn’t simply contain huge amounts of manually entered pairs of questions and answers, nor does...

In my experience it's fairly difficult to squeeze any sort of good coding practice out of most developers. They have deadlines, code quality be damned.

As Steve pointed out Security and...

I often get sample files from clients to use in building import routines; about 90% of the time i then have to fix the routine because the actual run-time files...

I'm with Grant and Tim: unions have no business in IT.

Full disclosure: i'm a developer, not a DBA, so my experiences differ from most others.

I don't really get calls or...

you've almost got it m. unfortunately, once you switch to using the IN condition, you can no longer pull the other data from LVCalls (disposition, call date) because they're still...