That new syntax in 2008 is handy. I'll have to try it out. Nice to learn something new. Thanks.

Calling someone a partner doesn't make them one. My experience has been that when a true collaborative partnership exists it happened naturally over time. Some things can be done to...

mtillman-921105 (3/18/2011)

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Ray,

One organization our firm is giving to is the...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/18/2011)

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Let's please keep this professional. There's no need for name calling.

I have learned the hard way that the US system for dates is not applicable...

Hugo Kornelis (3/18/2011)

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When will people ever learn about date formats?

The correct answer ("depends on the locale settings") was not listed, so I had to throw a coin to choose between...

I got the question correct because I didn't see the extra comma others have pointed out. Had I seen that, I probably would have thought the CREATE would fail.

I don't have to deal with SOX but I do have to deal with HIPAA. Both of these are laws that were passed to make people feel better about something....

I too know people in Japan. I spent two years there as a sailor and loved every minute of it. I became friends with a family I assisted while asisting...

Eventhough it's made-up, "object-mapped data files" sounds really cool. 😎

BITD(back-in-the-day), there were fewer options for storing data. Dates were generally stored either as 6-digits or 3, 2-digit fields. Fields were not changed when that data was ported to a...

At least the author used the proper term, deprecated. Features are deprecated not depreciated. At least that my pedantic way of looking at things. 😉

mazzz (3/10/2011)

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OCTom (3/10/2011)

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I just noticed that my opening post has the statistic for points @ 1,237 and visits @ 1,663. They total to 2,900, a nice round-ish sort of number....

Philip Barry (3/11/2011)

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We run several servers, however, for our main OLTP cluster each node is 12 core (2 sockets x 6 core) running 128GB RAM. This was a hardware refresh...

I just noticed that my opening post has the statistic for points @ 1,237 and visits @ 1,663. They total to 2,900, a nice round-ish sort of number. But, now,...

Now I know how old...