As a developer I find an MSDN subscription to be essential. I've heard of ReSharper and have seen people using it, but haven't any experience with it. For development I've...

Thought provoking article, Steve. And I see a lot of people have replied to it. I'd like to comment on the first part of it, but think it would be...

I agree with you Steve, but sometimes I wonder. Where I worked we had 18 years worth of data which I've maintained and advocated for years, should be analyzed to...

In looking at the Mapper function more closely I believe that the @word variable is very likely a NVARCHAR. It's assigned a value from the SUBSTRING function call. I'm still...

LutzM (1/19/2015)

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The description in the original link is somewhat misleading:

the part related to "create function..." and the following part "While EXISTS..." are both part of the same function.

The function should...

I think I did create that custom data type, but will have to check it when I'm on my laptop again.

Thank you for responding!

I agree with most of what you said here, Steve. But sometimes, for reasons I've never understood, the solutions I've proposed haven't been adopted. Instead everything just stayed the same....

I wonder about this, especially with HP. The suburb I live in is sort of a call center mecca. One of those call centers is owned by HP. They've been...

I just read this post today (Jan. 5, 2015), so I'm behind the times. However I think this is one of your best posts of 2014, Steve. I'm still "in...

I love that "Mission Statement" song by Yankovic! You wouldn't believe out many companies post job openings using so many buzz words! It's not a majority, but its more than...

(I hesitate to post to this, only because I fear getting inundated with recruiters seeking only to satisfy companies needing to fill positions at openings, rather than paying any attention...

Michael L John (12/18/2014)

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Agree. There are some good ones, and some bad ones.

In my area (Pennsylvania), there seems to be lot of recruiters that really did not look...

Alvin Ramard (12/18/2014)

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Recruiters are like every other type of people. There's good ones and bad ones.

Keep shopping until you find someone that's ready to work with what you want...

P Jones (12/16/2014)

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I have to ask why should these events be totally free? Most people would be happy to pay a fiver or tenner (UK) which would cover the hire...

OK, thanks.