What? You mean you think it isn't already...

Maybe we should have a thread on "are the posted Questions of the Day getting worse?". Probably not; QotD has always been unreliable, and although it isn't getting any...

A lot depends on what format the original hierarchy is stored in. You may find that Jeff Moden's articles on converting hierarchies represented by loop-free adjacency lists to a much...

Use the stuff function, wrapped in a case expression that tells you whether both bits match or just the first or just the second.

Before you use this code, read and...

Depends what you mean. There's a function called floor which rounds down to an integer (eg floor(2.5) is 2, floor(-2.5) is -3) so if you want to round down...

Peter Fairbrother has just produced an interesting story about NSA's trawling of the web. You can read it here.

Of course it isn't true. Or at least...

call.copse (9/8/2013)

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I'm going to say I'm probably edging towards Tom's perspective on this one.

As worrying as anything is a lack of concern on the part of journalists and ordinary folk...

Erland Sommarskog (9/8/2013)

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Certainly a bit of a mystery!

I can explain the part about the trailing space: if you save a value with trailing spaces in a varchar column, the trailing...

GilaMonster (9/8/2013)

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It was removed at Jen's request because a small number...

avo (9/7/2013)

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On the other hand, there is no need to over-react. "Monitoring" is not the same as "searching and seizing". Also, I haven't heard of a single case where...

The connect item has now disappeared.

I think someone at MS doesn't like being told they screwed up.

Just decreases my respect for them still further. The company's attitude to its...

Continuous development, continuous unit test, continuous integration, continuous system test, continuous QA, continuous release, and continuous deployment are all great concepts, and they work extremely well, as long as everyone...

This is going to damage the US economy. Already people over here are recommending that no company should put any sensitive data into the cloud without a contractual guarantee...

ccd3000 (9/5/2013)

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I think non-profits are probably better suited to tackle this like it's a literature exam (heuristics and human intervention oriented) better than a for-profit company which tend to approach...

Great editorial Gail.

Grant Fritchey (9/5/2013)

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I don't think anyone is saying that a good certification in this area can't be built. Just that so far, only one has been. And now...