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  • RE: Image is Everything

    Copeland, with his Mr. Rogers look (just because Gates and Balmer dress that way), strikes me as kind of myopic idiot. We all work in a vast variety of...

    Ron K.

    "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." -- Martin Fowler

  • RE: Image is Everything

    Clothes may not affect your performance, but they most certainly affect how your performance is judged by others. In some ways we are all like herd animals in which...

    Ron K.

    "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." -- Martin Fowler

  • RE: Missing data rows?

    I believe I know what is going on finally. I am the developer and not the DBA. Our DBA has checked and said no one else was in...

    Ron K.

    "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." -- Martin Fowler

  • RE: Missing data rows?

    No it does not have a WITH (NOLOCK) hint.

    However, I have found an old "Transact-SQL User's Guide" entry that states: "You can use select into on a permanent table only...

    Ron K.

    "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." -- Martin Fowler

  • RE: Missing data rows?

    YES! That is why it is so crazy! Something somewhere has to be deleting the table data soon after its creation leaving the empty table intact and we...

    Ron K.

    "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." -- Martin Fowler

  • RE: Acronym Trivia

    Trick Question! 60% of respondents didn't answer uNicode because they are ignorant of the true meaning. Many of SQL ServerCentral.com own articles and forum posts directly refer to...

    Ron K.

    "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." -- Martin Fowler

  • RE: Guest Editorial: That ain't a Database, it's a Spreadsheet

    I tend to agree with Phil and yet disagree. I feel initial development should start out small in a concept mode using isolated data in a strictly development only...

    Ron K.

    "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." -- Martin Fowler

  • RE: BYOC

    I agree with Jeff. Home and office should not be mixed. However this does not preclude working from home. It just means either your company provides you...

    Ron K.

    "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." -- Martin Fowler

  • RE: Normalizing-Denormalized Tables

    I am very interested in follow-on article about the "Insert Instead of" trigger on the view. We are just beginning a massive project to normalize our databases while creating...

    Ron K.

    "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." -- Martin Fowler

  • RE: Absolutely (Not?)

    I have to agree with Isaac's Three Rules, . . ., er Jeff's. Especially his "No Access" sub-rule . . . and I am developer, not a DBA! ...

    Ron K.

    "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." -- Martin Fowler

  • RE: 36 Changes

    It all matters with what the TEAM is comfortable in doing. Implementing 36 changes a week may seem overly ambitious and possibly nerve racking, If it is doable for...

    Ron K.

    "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." -- Martin Fowler

  • RE: Prometheus

    Possibly you did not miss your mark. However, you probably should have used the other picture of Prometheus being chained to rock as punishment, having his liver being eaten...

    Ron K.

    "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." -- Martin Fowler

  • RE: A Lack of SQL

    Interesting! I cut my teeth using Paradox and ObjectPAL. In fact, I had always considered ObjectPAL one of the best languages ever. Oracle had tried to purchase...

    Ron K.

    "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." -- Martin Fowler

  • RE: A Lack of SQL

    Without having much in way of a formalized change management system and in a diverse shop with multiple, yet related, database servers and databases, we have a definite need to...

    Ron K.

    "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." -- Martin Fowler

  • RE: Short cut key

    This seems to be configuration specific. I don't know who originally set up my SQL Server Management Studio on my PC, but when I am in a query and...

    Ron K.

    "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." -- Martin Fowler

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