We didn't have to recite it ever just had to know it instantly without singing "once one is one..." etc.

20 Sums in 20 Seconds was the test - less than...

Yeah and implement a couple of stored procs called blow_to_head and alchol_intoxication which use some sort of fuzzy logic and produce random loss of data and strange returns from select...

Burn Charles! Burn I say!

Hell hath no fury like a topic flamed!

😀

Bugger! 🙂 my Bad!

It was the second page.

Stewart Joslyn post of T-SQL.

Darth Barry - I couldn't write code like that without help, blood sweat, tears(someone else's) and the required ritual...

Jack Corbett (7/30/2008)

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Michael Taylor (7/30/2008)

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I would tend to disagree with this editorial in almost every way. The only real argument I saw as viable was the point about creating...

scott.w.white (7/30/2008)

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One thing to consider as well is that sprocs are vendor specific and require rewrites if you move from your current database platform, while there may be less...

Wow! nice fast reply - I see it. 😉

But is it what is required?

Is it good enough to replace the C(R)UD stored procs for every table aproach?

What are the...

does anyone have a T-SQL Stored proc that is generic and does CRUD operations. (not so much read but insert and update).

i.e. supply a an operation param, a tableName param,...

I don't keep contact details in my head,

but I do have a 1 through 12 instant lookup multiplcation matrix.

.i.e. give me any two integers 1 through 12 and I know...

Databases crunch numbers and do set based math like theres no tomorrow - no OOP language can perform as fast doing loops.

Hell yes! Single source for integrity and rule enforcement...

email 15 characters!

name 50 characters!

What planet are you from? planet n00b?

I take it this is not a serious thread 😀

Glad someone understood it.

Yeah, thought that one up Friday afternoon, kinda sounds more crude than I intended 😀

Gotta be the numbers of beers! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

US Computers

I was meaning IBM for giving us the mass produced cheap beige box PC, Mr Gates for conning them with DOS, and Apple for its gimicks.

iffy joke time -

What's...

thood (7/25/2008)

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OK, I'm really intimidated my what everyone else has written so far, but here goes anyway.

If you're re-assessing the data structure then is this not, as Tomm Carr alludes...