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rboggess (8/3/2009)
A bit off topic here, but ...[snip]
I guess I can see some relation here to Software Engineering -- if you're creating serious software you shouldn't be jaggin-off. 😀
:w00t: ...
August 3, 2009 at 3:53 pm
For the past 40 years, for example, we’ve tortured ourselves over our inability to finish a software
project on time and on budget. But as I hinted earlier, this never should...
August 3, 2009 at 9:27 am
This one was really good. I have read it four times and I see something new each time. The cool thing is that it "works" each time through....
July 29, 2009 at 9:59 am
I like to replace the NULLS with blanks. I also found a way to have it return just my tables.
SELECT
sys.tables.name AS [Table Name]
,sys.columns.name AS [Column...
July 24, 2009 at 3:07 pm
In many ways having too much freedom causes us problems.
Sure, bit I'll take that every day, and every second of the day, over the alternatives. If freedom is a...
July 23, 2009 at 12:49 pm
jcrawf02 (7/22/2009)
BOL?
Well you could then include MS Help. i had something more dynamic in mind though.
I've used NTFS to organize and manage large sets of data in a rapid...
July 22, 2009 at 11:56 am
Speaking of specialized databases there is one that almost everyone overlooks. Most of us are using it right now and don't realize it. It's been around for a...
July 22, 2009 at 9:03 am
LOL!! Even though I perceived the outcome by the second panel I enjoyed it all the way through. Great twist on the old mantra of "the development eats...
July 22, 2009 at 8:55 am
The image problem is not the fault of the browser. The site seems to have had a problem with some images. It lost my avatar, for example.
I use...
July 21, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Could it be that the Exchange team thinks in "spreadsheets" and not sets?
I used a lot of "table" storage mechanisms over the years and could typically beat the...
July 20, 2009 at 8:14 am
Rachel Byford (7/16/2009)
I think you're all being rather mean to Derek - his was a perfectly reasonable response!
From his pont of view, agreed.
July 16, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Noel McKinney (7/15/2009)
Derek the robot will do DBCC CHECKDB REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS in the next strip, just to be sure his work is done.
I can hear him now.
"Data Integrity Found! Ex-ter-min-ate!...
July 16, 2009 at 7:55 am
So about the robot babysitter. Let's make sure that it does not have a DBA brain.
Or just don't name your baby TABLE.
July 15, 2009 at 10:54 am
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