Are you pondering what I'm pondering, Alvin?

Does the plan involve a fiber-optic laser assembler?

I don't think my service-level agreement with you specifies an instant response time, Grant 😉

To be fair, I do understand doobya's annoyance at having to change so many of his existing procedures if he's going to use TRY/CATCH. That would make me...

Lynn, the only reason I'm holding back is it is the subject of an article I'm writing (if it proves out against spatial indexes).

One of the hangups...

Okay, thanks. I just sent you an email. Let me know if you got it.

Oliver would you post up your schema for your table that contains the polygons? We can talk it through using that as a starting point.

Hey guys, I know I'm coming late to the party, but I saw "spatial" pop up and I've been working on that quite a bit lately. Oliver, it...

Like Rishi, I don't understand why you were doing a left join in the first place, but there is something you are not telling us. Your original...

edited: never mind

CTEs are also a technique to improve readability because they read from top to bottom, rather than from inside out like subqueries. I often use them to break...

Okay... now I have a dog in that fight.

I understand. But you have control of the behavior based on the error severity level.

From Books Online (the section on RAISERROR):

When RAISERROR is run with a severity...

Grant, I don't have a dog in that fight, but his complaint is...

So you can. 🙂

I'll remember that. Thank you, Jeffrey.