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Wouldn't it be nice if competence were the sole criterion?
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
April 7, 2009 at 2:10 pm
I'll apologize for the title then. I made it deliberately provocative to try to get some comments, so I'll take responsibility for people not realizing that what I...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
April 7, 2009 at 11:14 am
Jeff, here is the code I used to test my results against the existing code, modified to prevent negative results. Let me know how it works for you.
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
April 7, 2009 at 11:06 am
Just out of curiousity, I reformatted that to make sense of the nested Case statements. They make sure that you never get a date below zero. ...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
April 7, 2009 at 10:49 am
Thanks, Jeff. I was feeling the same frustration I used to feel in arguments with my first wife when she would tell me what my opinion was...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
April 7, 2009 at 10:35 am
Don't you know? That isn't a sarcastic question, I promise. I just thought you were asking how to easily calculate elapsed time for a six-day work...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
April 7, 2009 at 10:29 am
I have this sudden vision of a man in a Gestapo uniform staring at a PeopleSoft screen and thinking "We have ways of dealing with you."
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
April 7, 2009 at 8:44 am
Yet the poster apparently has more control than you would think 😉
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
April 7, 2009 at 8:18 am
Gail and Jeff,
That's a shame, but it's a function of this environment. Anyone can say anything they want as long as they don't get profane. ...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
April 7, 2009 at 7:25 am
Thanks, tw. I'll look forward to hearing about it.
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
April 7, 2009 at 7:19 am
Thanks, Jeff:
The thing I find really odd about all this is that I don't think there should be an official blacklist either. If I felt that way, then...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
April 7, 2009 at 7:05 am
Will you accept a blessing then, Lynn? You've got one whether you will or not.
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
April 7, 2009 at 6:42 am
You can tell that from the table and column names, I suppose.
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
April 7, 2009 at 6:39 am
Jacek0 is right. There is no performance advantage to a given maximum length for varchar columns. In fact, for very short columns the overhead of using varchar...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
April 6, 2009 at 9:07 pm
If you have time to do a little testing, it might be interesting to see the performance difference of this approach against your current code. I understand some...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
April 6, 2009 at 8:33 pm
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