Views and stored procedures have nothing to do with transactions. Then again transactions are not supported either. That is OK as the Compact Edition is single user anyway.

Sorry to be so late in responding. I was on the road last week and not able to chime in.

First, if I offended anyone I apologize. I am a...

Jeff Moden (4/13/2009)

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And why should you? We should all agree that...

Yes, Pete, many cuts. I saw a paper tape reader on a CDC mainframe that had a gear motor an optical sensors. It used the drive holes on...

110 baud? Yep, that IS high speed. 8-level too. My first word processor was a teletype with a reader and punch. Editing was a bear. ...

Speaking of boards, one of the ones I kept hidden away was one that would dup a stack of cards and punch sequential numbers into the appropriate columns. Once...

Aaron N. Cutshall (4/9/2009)

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Just as the toolbox analogy was given earlier, there will never be a single tool created that will replace all tools in the toolbox. Though some...

You are right about being faster. Far less typing.

I think that there is a point that we have ignored though. I was thinking about the differences between COBOL...

So if we are going to talk about how NOT to construct a language try RPG. That's not "Role Playing Game" or "Rocket Propelled Grenade" but "Report Program Generator"....

Sorry. My attempt at sarcastic humor was missed. In the languages I mentioned the assignment operator is the single quote and the equality test is the double equal....

I'm almost of the opinion that the brackets around identifiers would be better required. It might speed the parser. We surround strings with single quotes and you don't...

Anyone remember this?

ON ERROR BEGIN;

PUT DATA;

SIGNAL FINISH;

END;

Then as to the APL dig that was Steve Jones. Even the great...

I had heard that you could

• Stop the service
• Kill the TempDB files
• Start the service

The downsides are two: (1) stopping the service, and (2) not being able to control where TempDB lives....

Alvin Ramard (4/2/2009)

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Based on what I heard about MS philosophy, space around the racks is not important. MS is planning on large data centers. If a server goes down,...

Move racks? Difficult you say? Not so. I watch people pull whole racks, disconnect them, move them a substantial distance and plug them back in. I've...