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  • RE: Why SQL Server?

    For me it was a progression. Started with Direct Access Method, DAM on a mainframe and got to BDAM, ISAM, DBASE, RBASE, ADABAS, AS400 OS2 and DB2, then to SQL...

  • RE: Look Beyond the First Result

    Gary Varga (2/27/2013)


    Miles Neale (2/26/2013)


    jay-h (2/26/2013)


    DavidBrown-731687 (2/26/2013)


    I resent the notion that, just because I may be more affluent than another person, I should be expected to pay more for everything...

  • RE: Early Software

    Dave62 (2/26/2013)


    Miles Neale (2/25/2013)


    Dave,

    Would you suggest developing a massive new system that is PC friendly in COBOL? ...

    Definitely not.

    I do .NET development and SQL Server development/administration. The last...

  • RE: Look Beyond the First Result

    jay-h (2/26/2013)


    DavidBrown-731687 (2/26/2013)


    I resent the notion that, just because I may be more affluent than another person, I should be expected to pay more for everything I buy. I...

  • RE: Early Software

    Dave62 (2/25/2013)


    Eric M Russell (2/25/2013)


    COBOL is obsolete in the same way that VHS tapes, the Latin language, and muzzle loaded rilfes are obsolete. Of course it's still widely in use,...

  • RE: Early Software

    bitbucket-25253 (2/23/2013)


    I read the previous comments, and except for a very few, posted by us "oldtimers" which bought back memories of my first programming tasks in 1960. (Hard to believe...

  • RE: Early Software

    Eric M Russell (2/22/2013)That's right, RDMS and SQL made ISAM and COBOL obsolete 20 years ago.

    Problem is that it might take another few decades to replace all the COBOL code....

  • RE: Early Software

    The first software that impressed me and caused me to consider entering the field was the Apollo Guidance Computer functionality. The AGC became famous as the computer or set...

  • RE: date problem in flat source

    bitbucket is the hero here, and well done with the example.

    And by the way do not hesitate to ask questions as needed in the future. There is help here

    M.

  • RE: date problem in flat source

    If you want to include the time with the date use the DATETIME function in the CAST instead of DATE.

    Also What is suggested is not to just convert the three...

  • RE: date problem in flat source

    Kanoe - did you get this working yet?

  • RE: Filtered Indexes - Simple Partitioning without Enterprise Edition?

    Thanks for the article and talking about the problem solving as you walked through this. We have done like things and have built these to construct "covered queries" where...

  • RE: Locking Hints

    L' Eomot Inversé (2/21/2013)


    Good question. ... After all, it had already been deprecated in SQL 2005, SQL 2008, and SQL 2008 R2, and surely 3 releases is enough warning...

  • RE: Life is Like a Manure Spreader

    Years back I ran a spreader as well. I worked with a crew that cleaned chicken houses in Northwest Arkansas. It was hard dirty work and there was...

  • RE: Update with CASE statement

    True or False: If a train leave Detroit going east at 40 MPH and a truck leaves Bosie Idaho going west three hours earlier at random speeds which will...

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