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  • RE: The Million Message System

    Steve Jones - Editor (8/26/2008)

    ...It doesn't take any more time to write good code if you know how.

    Too bad that learning how to write good code takes so long. ...

  • RE: Exponent Engima

    rbarryyoung (8/7/2008)


    Festeron (8/7/2008)


    There are problems with the question, though.

    Why is @b-2 declared and never used?

    Where is @b-17? Answer B cannot be correct

    Yikes! You are right,...

  • RE: Testing Testers

    With regards to teaching someone to fish...we recently started have weekly peer reviews of some aspect of our work. I work in a development department with a total of...

  • RE: Understanding INNER join in detail

    I do ask that you understand we try not to rewrite articles for authors. We work with them, do some spell checking and editing, but our intention is to make...

  • RE: Moving Files

    JohnG (7/2/2008)


    We need better quality control on the QOD. E.g., correctly spelling the names of stored procedures, etc.

    Most of us understand the intention and overlook some spelling errors (e.g.,...

  • RE: Undocumented Extended and Stored Procedures

    XP_FileExist

    The usage is:

    EXEC xp_fileexist <filename> [, <file_exists INT> OUTPUT]

    If executed without providing an output variable, it will display 3 columns indicating whether the table passed exists, whether it is a...

  • RE: Backups

    Since I have never tried this one, I had to go searching for some information. What I found is, apparently, very misleading. The following is an excerpt from...

  • RE: Historical Dollars

    maloneyk (4/11/2008)


    No, I have never and would never include or offer a salary history. It's really none of any prospective employer's business.

    What IS important is your ability to demonstrate...

  • RE: Sharing

    AndyD (3/21/2008)


    At my last work place, the Sys Admins implemented a new policy such that any workstation left unattended for 5 minutes would automatically lock, and then show the screensaver.

    It...

  • RE: Graphical Query Plans

    For a little bit more information about what index statistics are and how they are used, you can try the following link:

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190397.aspx

  • RE: A Lack of Data Quality

    Michael Ross (1/25/2008)


    What changes, if anything, if these people receiving paychecks can show that they tried to give the money back and HR/Accounting still did nothing? Is the person...

  • RE: XML Workshop XIII - XSD And Variable Content Containers

    Call me lazy, but coming up with a nice schema like this is a lot more typing than I like to do. What kinds of XSD editing tools would...

  • RE: Enums in SQL Server

    Comments are not necessarily free. They can be costly at maintenance time. There are many occasions when the code is changed and the comments are not...especially when the...

  • RE: Question of the Day for 25 Jul 2007

    From the reference linked listed as the explanation: ...However, if you experience difficulties creating indexes, consider increasing the value of this option from its run value

    If creating some new...

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