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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    mtillman-921105 (3/16/2012)

    Brandie, you are showing your terrific vocabulary. I love that you used the word "felicitations." It made me suspect that the root word was in the Spanish...

    March 16, 2012 at 2:28 pm

    #1460772

  • RE: Best Practice : coalesce vs. isnull?

    jcb (3/16/2012)

    Sometimes the parser can go weird.

    Is there any way to make the snipet below work?

    create table test4(

    a int null

    ,b int not null

    ,c as isnull(a,b*b) primary key

    )

    GO

    Updt: Never mind,...

    March 16, 2012 at 1:05 pm

    #1460716

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    mtillman-921105 (3/15/2012)

    L' Eomot Inversé (3/15/2012)

    Jack Corbett (3/15/2012)

    I have to disagree with calling what Paul wrote as "poisonous". I would say to call Paul anti-marriage is pulling that...

    March 15, 2012 at 9:06 pm

    #1460296

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    eccentricDBA (3/15/2012)

    A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity)

    ALIcE (Academic Language and Intercultural Exchange)

    March 15, 2012 at 7:59 pm

    #1460287

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Koen Verbeeck (3/15/2012)

    GSquared (3/15/2012)

    ... world conquest through a secrect society of elite DBAs.

    *gasp*

    It can be no coincidence that this topic is full of elite DBA's!

    (for some strange reason I first...

    March 15, 2012 at 2:49 pm

    #1460191

  • RE: Policies

    SQLRNNR (3/15/2012)

    Basic question. Here's why. Only 4 of the answers are legit evaluation modes. The question asks for four answers.

    Actually it's even more basic than that. ...

    March 15, 2012 at 1:19 pm

    #1460114

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GSquared (3/15/2012)

    Considering the arguments about NFs that I've seen between people who have different opinions about what they mean, even though they agree completely on the memorized definitions, I wouldn't...

    March 15, 2012 at 12:15 pm

    #1460079

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jack Corbett (3/15/2012)

    I have to disagree with calling what Paul wrote as "poisonous". I would say to call Paul anti-marriage is pulling that particular passage out of...

    March 15, 2012 at 12:03 pm

    #1460073

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    herladygeekedness (3/15/2012)

    I have also lost jobs on terminology as I am also self-taught. I'm more a data analyst/programmer than DBA but around SQL since 6.5 and recordsets from same...

    March 15, 2012 at 11:28 am

    #1460041

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (3/15/2012)

    jcrawf02 (3/15/2012)

    Stefan Krzywicki (3/14/2012)

    In reality, priests could have families for the first several hundred to 1000 years of the church. The celibacy thing only started because priests were...

    March 15, 2012 at 10:19 am

    #1459989

  • RE: Best Practice : coalesce vs. isnull?

    SQL Kiwi (3/14/2012)

    manub22 (3/14/2012)

    The following blog post will give you differences and performance difference b/w ISNULL() and COALESCE()

    Check link: http://sqlwithmanoj.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/isnull-vs-coalesce/

    It's a reasonable summary of what's already in BOL, but again...

    March 15, 2012 at 8:42 am

    #1459905

  • RE: Policies

    mtassin (3/15/2012)

    Koen Verbeeck (3/15/2012)

    Basic, easy question? I never use the damn thing 🙂

    Thanks for the question, it was very interesting to learn a bit more.

    +1 here as well... never use...

    March 15, 2012 at 7:43 am

    #1459849

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (3/14/2012)

    sp_OA* (for those who find CLR too safe)

    Some things just never go away. That dates from 6.5, doesn't it?

    It's nearly 7 years since Ken Henderson blogged

    ...With the...

    March 14, 2012 at 3:55 pm

    #1459533

  • RE: Question of the Day for 07 Jun 2004

    A pretty hopeless question. There are at least 2 other answers at least as good as the supposedly "correct" one, and the most glaringly obvious one (the one that...

    March 14, 2012 at 1:48 pm

    #1459467

  • RE: Question of the Day for 15 Jul 2004

    Quite amusing. Lots of fun debate in which only Remi suggested that there was no correct answer, so I think he's the only person who should have got any...

    March 14, 2012 at 1:27 pm

    #1459462

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