People come here looking for advice. The advice is taken seriously and used in production code. The answers to the QotD need to be correct. If the correctness of the...

The idea is simply to write comparative tests into the code; you have the "proven but unsupported" production method and then, at its side, a very "safe" method that performs...

You wouldn't have...

Wisdom is a combination of experience, knowledge and gut feeling. I haven't seen a data type for gut feeling, yet.

Can you provide a link to the article?

Nice end-of-week question. Not too much brain power required.

Thanks.

I was told once by a wise man (my dad) that mutiple choice answers with "always" and "never" are usually incorrect and to not choose them. But, that doesn't "always"...

What is the amount of alcohol that makes one too tipsy to work? It's likely different for each person.

I would guess that management doesn't...

Thanks all for your explanations. It cleared it up for me.

If stored procedures are never saved to disk, why do you have to bother compiling them? This is a misconception (or misunderstanding by me) on my part. I'm still learning,...

Sometimes a public unveiling of a mistake is appropriate. For instance, when a team is meeting on a design and someone suggests something that is entirely inappropriate for the application....

Good question. Being fairly new to SQL Server, I would not have thought that views could have triggers. It seems counter-intuitive to me. I learned something new, AGAIN!! :w00t:

I would agree in allowing customers to remove data they don't want a company to have as long as the company has the right to not do business with the...

I did not know that. Thanks for setting me straight.

Is that OK, Carlo, or, is that useless, too? 😉

This is cute but useless. If you're testing candidates who can't even solve this problem fairly quickly, your hiring practices need work. You should be weeding these people out before...