Years back there was a commercial on TV here in the states where an automotive repair company said that "We stand behind our brake jobs!" They took a lot...

TravisDBA (10/2/2012)

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Exactly right Eye, once again this is "real" world, not "ideal" world, and as long as this mistrusting attitude dominates among many managers in our industry (and believe me...

I have had them presented we have negotiated and have come to agreement. Some time it appears onesided, and because of the business and timing thus it should be....

Well all the code is there but it does not work withoug some debugging and understanding what is going on. Nice piece of work though and interesting.

Thanks,

M.

NO!

All may have been created equal, but not all IT folks develop at the same pace, rate, or to the same level. Some are mechanics who make, remake, and...

Could I suggest that we look at the statement like Security can not just be added-on but must also be baked-in?

You...

Well Steve, It looks as if I missed a real live on.

But back to what you had started to say, inappropriate behavior is by definition inappropriate. And as...

Peter "Pistol Pete" Maravich - Some of you might remember, some may have not ever known of him but he was amazing. He worked to get it right, he...

Nice question! Had to dig a little to find out part of the XML index strategy but learned something new in the process. Thanks Hugo!

joe.wolfe (9/13/2012)

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The given answer to this question is "true", but I am not sure this is correct. The "NotGo" throws an error "Incorrect syntax near 'NotGo'" and the variable @test-2...

Hugo Kornelis (9/19/2012)

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Miles Neale (9/19/2012)

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Thus can you depend on it to be consistent? If in fact "The query will return zero or one row" how can it be consistent?...

Hugo Kornelis (9/19/2012)

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Huh? Why?

SELECT TOP ... without ORDER BY is like saying "give me the first by any...

I would say also that it was dishonest, or at a minimum deceptive. In any case it shows that you can not always trust certain functions of the SQL...

Steve,

Excuse the tangent. I like you have the choice to dress as I feel appropriate. Early on I also worked in a place where the Office Staff had...