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  • RE: calculate median value

    Flo: An average is reached by summing the values and dividing by the number of values. A median is the value at the middle of an...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Thank you, ma'am. 🙂

    (I always make it a point to be polite to ladies... especially martial artists who can also humiliate me technically. It's a southern...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I have to ask (somewhat fearfully) how did Gail get to be Gila Monster?

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  • RE: Ruthless

    G: Do you prioritize what needs to be done first, or just take things on a FIFO basis?

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  • RE: Ruthless

    I actually found ruthless to be a very appropriate term. Every day another thousand potential distractions are created to try to grab our attention and vie for a...

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  • RE: Falling Over our Assumptions

    Thanks, Andrew 🙂

    7. The clustered index should always be on the Primary Key.

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  • RE: Falling Over our Assumptions

    You mean like SELECT... INTO.... ??

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  • RE: Falling Over our Assumptions

    The temptation is to just do a little hard coding for that exception, assuming that this is a one-off situation.

    The truly sad thing about this one is that it...

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  • RE: Falling Over our Assumptions

    How about?

    1. Everyone knows that databases don't scale.

    2. Everyone knows that SQL Server is slow.

    3. We are going...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Is this it?

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  • RE: Just Walk Away - Blacklisting - and Twits without Twitter

    I don't think you need to worry, Jim. I've never heard your name mentioned by anyone in any context underlying the start of this thread. ;-)...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn deserves some kind of award for his missionary work in Darkest Procedural Land during the Rant.

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  • RE: Just Walk Away - Blacklisting - and Twits without Twitter

    I DID sort of limber up my throwing arm while pondering my reply. 😀

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ... this is the kind of newbie I like to see...

    He is a trophy. Stuff him and mount him on the wall. You could tell from his first...

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  • RE: Just Walk Away - Blacklisting - and Twits without Twitter

    I had a job interview once where I was asked if I had ever thrown large manuals at people. I thought it was a joke question until it...

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