Hi Wayne,

I...

Hi Steve,

Agreed. The SQL Server Community is awesome! Part of the reason is that you're part of it.

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Hi Steve,

I've never used an Apple device. My geek daughter (@PennyTrupe) loves her Apple devices. Several geek friends (you, Grant, Brent) rave about the cool and productive...

I haven't used Database Edition recently. I liked the earlier versions a lot, and liked the direction of the product. One thought when I started this series was to show...

Yep - that's the correct expression!

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Da-zero: I doubt you will ever see somethign like this on an exam question. I would object to this kind of question, personally.

Hugo: I am considering every option for course...

Good editorial Steve!

I've worked in similar models as a consultant and as an employee. The swarms are clled different things at different companies, but the concept of self-organizing to solve...

LOL Guru!

I think Alex is trying to tell me the same thing, although he's being much nicer about it than you!

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Hi Alex,

When it comes to testing, I prefer to apply mathematical proof methodologies over Occam. One anecdote about a logic test goes something like this:

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Hi Alex,

While I agree this adds to the amount of code that lives with the project, I disagree that it's bloat. For me, it's a question of...

I remember SQL Slammer. I was living in Jax and contracting at the time. The enterprise also had lots of undocumented instances of SQL Server and MSDE. We'd clean up...

Hi Allen,

I don't use proxies. I've never had any luck getting them to work as I thought they should. Here's what I do instead: I grant the...

Some excellent points raised here.

I could have been clearer if I'd added language to indicate more about the arrangement of the tasks, groups, and sequence containers. Perhaps adding language to...

Hi Paul,

If your Execute Sql Task is only returning a single record, that's all that will be displayed.

Andy

Hi Paul,

How many rows are being returned by the query in the Execute Sql Task?

Andy