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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Do we need a new thread: "Are the posted answers getting worse?"

  • 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,...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Froggish

    ?

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • RE: PRINT vagaries

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

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