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  • RE: Call Me, Maybe

    Time to hire a bring in a summer intern whose only job is to be passed the phone on those calls, pretend to be you, and whose only job is...

  • RE: If or When?

    OCTom (4/10/2014)


    Hackers are not going to try to hack all severs. They look for the easiest or most rewarding path.

    fixed in bold.

    You can be really hard to get into, but...

  • RE: Catch this!

    venoym (4/10/2014)


    Guess I'll be the first to say that the "twist" was not appropriate. The question was titled and about the TRY...CATCH structure in SQL Server, the string length...

  • RE: If or When?

    Trust in god, but tie your camel first

    Everyone working in software should have long since learned the danger of assumptions. The preparations in that article, as pessimistic as they...

  • RE: data transfer with SSIS multiple left join with source table

    If all the tables are in the same source DB, why not just do your query in one source and send it to your transformation?

    You seem to be...

  • RE: SSIS 2012 Environment Variables and Source Control

    To tell the truth, we are currently using a couple of environment variables, and will be using a max of 3 environments, so we were not planning to source control...

  • RE: X in Technology

    skeleton567

    I worked for one ethnic minority supervisor in my career, and remember him not as a minority but as incompetent.

    That reinforces my stereotypes of supervisors more than of minorities.

    Socialy...

  • RE: The Endless Upgrade Cycle

    I think there is definitely a good argument to be made about software being patched/supported longer, or moving more to licensing models with ongoing support and new versions, rather than...

  • RE: How to get the date?

    Do you care about holidays or just saturday / sunday?

    Do you have access to (or are you willing to create and maintain) a calendar table?

    If you need to discount...

  • RE: SQL Query Variable Problem

    SELECT @getCnt = COUNT(AcctID)

    FROM Customer

    WHERE accttype in (@AcctType)

    You can't build a string in the query (use indirection) unless you use dynamic SQL. So the ' + @accttype +...

  • RE: TRY_PARSE & FLOAT

    Check the first link again. Sql links the int types to NumberStyles.Number, not NumberStyles.Integer.

  • RE: t-sql datetime conversion issue

    It sounds like you think the date you are getting is formatted MMDDYYYY, but is really formatted DDMMYYYY. Either that or local settings are tripping you up.

    The...

  • RE: TRY_PARSE & FLOAT

    Not really a bug, just .net doing what it says it will

    Technet on try parse

    The values for the data_type parameter are restricted to the types shown in the following table,...

  • RE: Yet another pivot question

    Of course that seems to me to be a pretty clear indication that the MYSQL database you are stuck with is pretty horrible (as it needs a 6 way join...

  • RE: How Many Passwords?

    Passwords are and will continue to be a nightmare.

    Worse yet, they are a bit of a catch-22. Steps you take towards making them more secure (different...

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