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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Revenant (12/17/2011)

    I have started on 2 September 1970, on an IBM 360/40 installation that was pride of the town: 128k of memory, 8 tape drives, and 8 2311 disk drives...

    Tom

    December 18, 2011 at 6:30 am

    #1422895

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Revenant (12/17/2011)

    L' Eomot Inversé (12/17/2011)

    Revenant (12/17/2011)

    Today, they are called "visionaries" or "ahead of the curve."

    (This was a reply to SQL Kiwi.)

    I more often hear them called "suckers", "fools", or "idiots"....

    Tom

    December 17, 2011 at 6:45 pm

    #1422878

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Revenant (12/17/2011)

    It is the old IBM tack "No one ever got fired for using IBM."

    Today, using SAP will not get you fired. Especially, when $50k per module lincese is...

    Tom

    December 17, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    #1422876

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Revenant (12/17/2011)

    Today, they are called "visionaries" or "ahead of the curve."

    (This was a reply to SQL Kiwi.)

    I more often hear them called "suckers", "fools", or "idiots". Not "saps" though, perhaps...

    Tom

    December 17, 2011 at 5:56 pm

    #1422873

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    LutzM (12/17/2011)

    Stefan Krzywicki (12/16/2011)

    L' Eomot Inversé (12/16/2011)

    Stefan Krzywicki (12/16/2011)

    SAP = Blech

    SAP = a lot worse than just Blech

    In addition to many of the faults I already knew about, it is...

    Tom

    December 17, 2011 at 8:55 am

    #1422837

  • RE: Sorting triggered by data type

    SQL Kiwi (12/16/2011)

    L' Eomot Inversé (12/16/2011)

    SQL Kiwi (12/13/2011)

    I suppose we could also wonder about the relevance of the title, whether there is any guarantee the join will produce any rows...

    Tom

    December 16, 2011 at 6:47 pm

    #1422773

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (12/16/2011)

    SAP = Blech

    SAP = a lot worse than just Blech

    Tom

    December 16, 2011 at 1:13 pm

    #1422703

  • RE: Sorting triggered by data type

    Revenant (12/13/2011)

    Britt Cluff (12/13/2011)

    This is valid code and the CONVERT will only fail when IsInsurance = 1 and Value <> Integer value.

    Have you tried that?

    Clearly he hasn't.

    Tom

    December 16, 2011 at 12:43 pm

    #1422689

  • RE: Sorting triggered by data type

    Matt Marston (12/13/2011)

    As previous posters have commented, the issue is not "because in CASE statements all possibilites are being evaluated" but because the CASE expression must return a single data...

    Tom

    December 16, 2011 at 12:41 pm

    #1422687

  • RE: Sorting triggered by data type

    SQL Kiwi (12/13/2011)

    I suppose we could also wonder about the relevance of the title, whether there is any guarantee the join will produce any rows or not, and what is...

    Tom

    December 16, 2011 at 12:35 pm

    #1422683

  • RE: Sorting triggered by data type

    Great question, very interesting, mistaken explanation, and interesting discussion.

    Tom

    December 16, 2011 at 12:26 pm

    #1422676

  • RE: There Must Be 15 Ways To Lose Your Cursors… Part 2: Just Put It in a S

    Thomas-282729 (12/15/2011)

    L' Eomot Inversé (12/15/2011)

    The problem that the question whether data is correct is a business problem. It can only be ascertained or tested by examining business rules and can...

    Tom

    December 16, 2011 at 11:21 am

    #1422647

  • RE: Concurrent Operations

    I sometimes like questions where I have to guess what they mean, but sometimes I don't. Here I didn't, even though I eventualy got it right.

    These were the questions...

    Tom

    December 15, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    #1422246

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (12/15/2011)

    Yeah - it is all low pri *snicker*

    speaking of snicker - I could use one right now - so hungry:Whistling:

    Raw, or deep-fried?

    Tom

    December 15, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    #1422238

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    WayneS (12/15/2011)

    Alternative workaround: notice how many posts you are off, then go down that many posts and click the quote button on that post. (But it won't work to well...

    Tom

    December 15, 2011 at 2:25 pm

    #1422233

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