So many jokes, so little time! I had thought about a bunch of them and then had trouble keeping it down to a PG rating. :w00t:;-):-D:hehe::blink:

p456 (12/9/2009)

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Aren't most of your examples just syntactic sugar that could be done with a subquery?

I would prefer to use simpler constructs if possible for ease of future maintenance.

From what...

Great article. You might want to include some things though. I use a CTE to get me out of awkward JOIN situations. If I want to count...

Mother? Why are you using half a word? :w00t: :hehe: :pinch:

So have you looked at F#[/url] yet? There...

Great article - All three parts.

In the column order I get that as this is how the index is sorted. When talking about included columns one would guess that...

Sorry. "Clink, clink" the sound of a chain being jerked.

I knew this thread had all the prerequisites to be...

Gianluca Sartori (11/16/2009)

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Which is better between C# and VB.Net? ....Uhmmmm.... Java! 😀

No, seriously, it's just a personal choice. I like languages that force you to...

Please stop comparing C# and VB.NET as though you were comparing old VB to C++. None of those old arguments apply. Check out the Reg Gate Reflector. ...

Jeff Moden (11/12/2009)

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Heh... I have an odd personal preference... I don't like languages that require semi-colons or line continuation characters. It seems that they should all be smarter than...

Because his spreadsheet has specifications for that date and not the actual data.

I had a similar challenge and I did it to myself. We underwent a new database design for the next generation of one of our products. We decided...

Most every thing Gail said applies to 2000. I'm setting on a bunch of 2000 deployments and a load of 2005 deployments. ...

Thanks James. I'm having a great deal of trouble seeing your script. Must be this silly IE 8.

My mileage varies here. For me unplanned server restarts are the big...

Good observation. Yep, I can be wrong. So then does it come down to "Is Simple worth the risk?"