Forum Replies Created

Viewing 15 posts - 6,841 through 6,855 (of 7,483 total)

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    CirquedeSQLeil (7/11/2010)


    Steve Jones - Editor (7/11/2010)


    I added my thoughts to the thread. I think the guy/gal was humble enough, admitting he was in over his head there. I am hoping,...

    Tom

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Froggish

    ?

    Tom

  • RE: Try Catch alters behaviour of existing procedures

    doobya (7/12/2010)


    His post did not add anything to the discussion - it was therefore light trolling

    forum dwellers do tend to get upset when the status quo / comfort zone of...

    Tom

  • RE: "Real" copy of Codd's 12 (13) Rules for RDBMS

    Jeff Moden (7/12/2010)


    Crud... the site you referenced wants to download to a CD and I won't have access to a computer that has a burnable CD or DVD for at...

    Tom

  • RE: PRINT vagaries

    Hugo Kornelis (7/2/2010)


    These rules are documented in Books Online. Use the index to find "data types [SQL Server]], precedence". Or read through the discussion, I believe I posted a link...

    Tom

  • RE: PRINT vagaries

    Definitely a fun question - and interesting discussion. But, as Christian pointed out, "Print vagaries" is not the right title for this.

    Tom

  • RE: Split string using Tally Table

    Well, I got it wrong - after looking briefly at the code and deciding there was now way I was going to try to make sense of such...

    Tom

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Trey Staker (7/7/2010)


    What is this vacation thing you speak of?

    It's that thing involving being able to afford her some time that one frequently promises to ones wife but rarely materialises.

    But...

    Tom

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    bteraberry (7/7/2010)


    The Dixie Flatline (7/7/2010)


    You're not going to explain this in a such a way as to make him happy.

    I didn't believe you. Now I do.

    I've been there often...

    Tom

  • RE: Try Catch alters behaviour of existing procedures

    doobya (7/7/2010)


    Grant Fritchey (7/7/2010)


    But if you have pre-existing procs with established and functioning logic, why are you changing them to use TRY/CATCH at all? I would only suggest rewriting them...

    Tom

  • RE: SQL syntax

    Paul White NZ (5/29/2010)


    Grant Fritchey (5/28/2010)


    I would argue that while all three compile and run, none of them is "correct."

    In the same way that 2+2=5 for sufficiently large values of...

    Tom

  • RE: Defensive Programming

    David Burrows (7/7/2010)


    However the first programming language I used was CESIL (the version from the late 1960's) 😎

    CESIL? :Wow: Good heavens! And you went into computing after that? :w00t:

    That...

    Tom

  • RE: Defensive Programming

    David Burrows (7/6/2010)


    Tom Brown (4/23/2010)


    EDSAC !

    My word - that was ancient history when I started on ICL 1900s

    Not that ancient when I started on an Elliott 803 !!

    Elliot 803...

    Tom

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    WayneS (7/5/2010)


    Since there's a bit of talk going on about topics to present and such, I'd like to get some input from some of the Threadizens...

    I've been contemplating making a...

    Tom

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

    MikeAngelastro-571287 (7/1/2010)


    Hi,

    I've had two situations where cursors were involved and I'm interested in what you think of them.

    The first was as a business analyst at an internet retail company that...

    Tom

Viewing 15 posts - 6,841 through 6,855 (of 7,483 total)