Lots of things might get upset about a column change. The way to find out is research it.

For example, you'll need to find any foreign keys that reference the...

gah (8/10/2009)

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GSquared (8/10/2009)

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Nope. I'm providing that as a "useful answer".

I play online games professionally, and have a hoby of spending 8-9...

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Nope. I'm providing that as a "useful answer".

I play online games professionally, and have a hoby of spending 8-9 hours a...

Chad Crawford (8/10/2009)

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jcrawf02 (8/10/2009)

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Gianluca: English is not my first language, so I'm sure any comment from me won't be valuable on the language side.

Jon: You're crazy, your English is better...

My reply was useful, but only if you're willing to do the work necessary to get actual data before you make your decision.

If...

jpowers (8/10/2009)

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David.Poole (8/10/2009)

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It depends on the personality of the person you are speaking to.

Some managers view any resistence as dissent to be crushed. A carefully phrased question can start...

majorbloodnock (8/10/2009)

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Wow. Lots in here, all good.

GSquared (8/10/2009)

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I'd rather be honest, but non-insulting, personally....I'd be more likely to say....or something like that. It's non-insulting, it's honest, and it puts...

Brad: I have to ask, is there a way for you to fix the title of this thread? The article title is correct, the thread title references backing up...

timothyawiseman 18. Try to use table variables instead of Temporary Tables -

In general, I agree. Table variables are normally to be preferred, but there are some cases where the Temp...

steve_melchert (8/10/2009)

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> It really is up to the authors to seek out peer reviews of their

> articles before publication. The editor chooses to publish submitted

> articles with...

gregory.anderson (8/10/2009)

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Here's a question about one of the items. You mentioned that writing "master.dbo.proc_name" is better than just "proc_name", well, what about writing "master..proc_name"? My company does not...

jacroberts (8/10/2009)

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ronmoses (8/10/2009)

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10. WHERE clauses - In a WHERE clause, the various operators used directly affect how fast a query can run. Here are the conditional operators used in the...

TheSQLGuru (8/10/2009)

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Clearly if your logic REQUIRES complex data access/processing PER ROW of output then a UDF is quite possibly the correct tool for the job. You are definitely correct...

You're welcome.