hanziou (4/23/2010)

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I the title of the paper really "The diagnosis of mstakes in programmes on the EDSAC" by S. Gill,? I.e. is "mistakes" purposely misspelled by S. Gill? ...

Highland Tigers

r.hensbergen (4/23/2010)

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Amazing how many people said 1859... Only halfway through WWII computers were really programmable (and used for military reasons) and the word was used as such... BTW programmers were...

kevlray (12/5/2008)

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From what I can tell the best answer is the first one. I created the tables and populated them with the same data. Ran the queries and...

Tao Klerks (3/31/2008)

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For SQL Server 2000, none of the answers are quite correct, because the closest answer (A) misses the fact that the column is not just at the start,...

Hugo Kornelis (4/7/2008)

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Hi all,

In contrast to some other people in this discussion (and in many other QotD related discussions), I really don't care about points. Points are just a fun...

Jesse McLain (3/6/2008)

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Sorry everyone, I really got egg on my face with this one. :ermm: When I posted the question, I copied the wrong answer for answer #3. The missing...

Podcasts - no. Maybe I'll make a sound file when I'm feeling stronger...

jcrawf02 (4/21/2010)

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Pity that Brent will get kicked out of the MVP club so soon after his MCM... 😛

And now for something completely different...

Any advice on ridding my lawn of the...

sunburn.

(ouch)

Why do you want people to lie to you?

Nice article, Paul. With this and the previous one I think I'm beginning to understand apply (a feature I haven't yet used, but probably will sometime soon now that...

fruitfully or arithmetically?

Yelena Varshal (11/2/2007)

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I think that UPDATE() is incorrect answer.

The question was:

"Within a trigger, how can you tell if a value has altered on a specific column? "

The explanations for the...

Steve Jones - Editor (7/24/2007)

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Bad question because of the answers, I guess. I was thinking of something else and threw in Profiler, thinking it was the "harder" way to do...