What a poor list! It has a couple of really good people on it, and rather a lot of over-hyped also-rans. It omits people who are far more relevant...

A really nice article. Good explanation.

Tom

Jason Lees-299789 (11/11/2009)

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I would be very suprised if Select * ever disappears, while not best practice its great when you are diving around an unfamiliar Database or one that doesnt...

Paul White (1/11/2010)

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Tom.Thomson (1/10/2010)

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They can't in theory occur within a...

They can't in theory occur within a transaction, they occur...

Lynn Pettis (1/26/2009)

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Tom.Thomson (1/26/2009)

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J (11/6/2008)

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Sorry - you were wrong

No. YOU ARE wrong.

It does not matter if there are duplicates or not, because the question specifically mentioned that there were no...

As some previous commenters did, I got this right by guessing what the questioner had got wrong.

Nice article. I liked very much seeing the "temp-in-place" technique applied, I guess it's very rare these days.

But I didn't recognise the description of the early 70s. I started...

I think a dba (other than a junior trainee dba) should have experience in at least two other areas of computing and should understand the business (that understanding will usually...

I wish the world were like what is described in the editorial. But even over here, where we have pretty strong data protection laws, it isn't like that. Mostly...

Ouch -you got me - I didn't notice "clustered".

And I've complained about people not reading questions carefully:blush:!

Bits or real-world objects - will it be either? Can we be sure that there won't be another big shift like the one that took place between 1950...

Elliott W (11/4/2009)

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I have to admit that while there are a lot of good SQL resources out there as evidenced by the big contributors on this forum, there are a...

weitzera (11/4/2009)

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That's a pretty well thought-out Reply Tom. Got any pointers on how to avoid these risks? (Other than not taking the job in the first place 🙂 ...

Nice article. Some of the comments are pretty interesting too.

I think there are sometimes good reasons for not bringing in those highly-paid consultants, and making do as best as...