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  • RE: Loyalty Cards

    I like to shop at places where a card isn't needed to get the sale price. I don't like having my habits tracked by anyone.

    Loyalty programs are fine as...

  • RE: More Can Come From Less

    Jeff Moden (7/30/2009)


    Lynn Pettis (7/30/2009)


    I think I may have a solution to businesses that think salaried people should be expected to work 40+ hours all the time. With the...

  • RE: Unique constraints

    Sometimes it pays to be late to answer a question. 😉

  • RE: Reclaiming freed space

    Great question. This was a real brain tickler for me.

    I like the first answer. Just wait a while. If it were only that easy. 😀

  • RE: SQL Server 2005

    Does anyone refer to the code name after RTM? Just wondering. I haven't been around SQl Server too long and I never cared about code names in Windows or anything...

  • RE: Estimating Priorities

    Steve Jones - Editor (7/23/2009)


    skjoldtc (7/23/2009)


    I'll let somebody else make a joke about the "shiny bits". 😀

    I didn't get a good quote here about shiny bits. I kind of forced...

  • RE: column & data type.

    Carlo Romagnano (7/23/2009)


    Not always. Converting varchar to int, may fail if some value is not numeric.

    I was taking the question to mean the mechanics of changing a data type. One...

  • RE: Estimating Priorities

    I'll let somebody else make a joke about the "shiny bits". 😀

    Being so busy that you don't know what to do first is a personal choice.

  • RE: I Want a Database

    Just because data exists doesn't mean the disparate pieces should be connected. It would have no relevance. Data is just little pieces of stuff. Information occurs when relevant data is...

  • RE: Spatial Concepts

    SQAPro (7/21/2009)


    I see no reason not to give a fair degree of latitude to such questions. not everything is T-SQL (gasp... what he said?!?) Why you could say...

  • RE: more Data Mining!

    Lucky guess never having worked with data mining. :hehe:

  • RE: Optimizing Indexes

    Hey Bitbucket, thanks for teaching me something new.

  • RE: Raw Materials - Career Counseling

    The shackles around my ankles having been chafing lately.

  • RE: Music for DBAs

    Running On Empty - Jackson Browne (for slow queries)

    I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash (for finding the cause of a problem)

    Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton (for when the...

  • RE: transaction test!

    Hee, hee. I, too got this right for the wrong reason. Like Webrunner, I thought the commitment of T2 committed T1. Oops.

    Good question.

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