I'm not offended, just a little surprised by your initial post.  I apologize if you felt I disparaged you, I wasn't trying to personally attack you, just trying to determine...

The discussion here though is not whether chemicals make you feel or act differently.  Many chemicals can do that (e.g., crack).  The theory is that there is a causative effect...

actually, I never asserted that anyone was a slave to their chemisty, or that anyone is the mere sum of their chemical components. You're the one who brought up...

Like I said, I could be wrong.  I am no expert in the field, nor do I claim to be.  And if you think you are the mere sum of...

LOL.  I was a little shocked that people even buy into all that pseudo-science these days

I think women are probably leaving IT because there...

"The fact is that men and women are different. Men have higher testosterone and this affects the way their brains grow, giving them an advantage in mathematical/logical thinking. Women...

Is it possible that big companies just aren't providing security and competitive wages/benefits to a large portion of workers in the IT field?

It would be an interesting comparison to see...

Hi James,

Not sure why that would happen. I had the exact opposite experience on a few different SQL Server instances I tested on. There could be a lot...

Hi Brian,

For some reason I'm not receiving emails from my threads here anymore (need to check my settings I guess), so I didn't see this one until just now. ...

Actually any of your original published work, whether in print or online, is automatically copyrighted (at least in the U.S.)  For something to go into the public domain, you either...

"Do the columns being SUM()'ed allow NULL ? Summing a NULL value along with other values always returns NULL as the SUM() result."

That's not true.  SUM() and most other aggregate...

Hi Ninja, that was a typo   What I get for trying to type at 2 AM with no Mountain Dew in sight

I started some testing of my own, but haven't been able to devote enough time to get any solid results yet.  Based on what I have so far, the "reducing-rowcount"...

Sorry in advance for the long post:

Question - who's in charge of all these disparate systems?  I.e., do you have different DBA's and developers who work on DBMS A and...

That's a novel solution   Way to think outside the box!

The only issue I would raise with...