I don't understand what you mean. To me a predicate variable is a...

David Portas (4/26/2011)

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Now you are being silly. No one said nulls are "evil" or objected to them for "religious" or dogmatic reasons. The objections are about the practical disadvantages of...

Steven993 (4/26/2011)

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tabraham 36699 (4/26/2011)

Ideally, Chris Date's vision of an OO-Relational DB will emerge, with, among other things, a formally defined range for each attribute and an explicit value representing UNKNOWN,...

Then you disagree...

wta306 (4/25/2011)

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How do you determine what size to make your VARBINARY field to hold the results of the HASHBYTES function?

Is it simply a matter of setting it to be equal...

That would be Borracho the drunken kalinator, wouldn't it?

LutzM (4/25/2011)

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GilaMonster (4/25/2011)

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Today's good...

[Jim].[dba].[Murphy] (4/25/2011)

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Ha! Tom, you take me way to seriously. I thought the hyperbole was humorous;...

Brandie Tarvin (4/25/2011)

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On behalf of everyone with alphabet soup sigs (looking at my own @=), just because I have them doesn't mean I'm claiming to know everything. In fact, I'll...

[Jim].[dba].[Murphy] (4/25/2011)

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That's probably because since you are so far away; it takes longer for the electrons to get there. They only...

Very interesting question. Completely wrong answer ("none of the above" is the only correct answer, assuming that the question is actually in English and no some strange language that...

Now...

Steven993 (4/24/2011)

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When you write Dace, I guess you mean Date.

I actually own almost every books Chris published. He wrote hundred of pages on NULL topic.

Maybe I'll come later and write...

Steven993 (4/24/2011)

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I don't know Dace's work, but maybe you could explain it for...

Steven993 (4/24/2011)

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Tom.Thomson (4/24/2011)

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This of course relies on using the original definitions of the normal forms, not the perverted versions with an explicit forbidding of NULL added long after the definition...