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  • RE: Afraid of Help

    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...

  • RE: AND & OR

    A good question. Maybe even a very good question.

    Maybe the title of the question could be phrased so that it makes it clear that what is being tested...

  • RE: Storing IPv4 Addresses for Performance

    Jean-Sebastien Carle (10/31/2009)


    <much snipped>

    Tom.Thomson (10/31/2009)It's easy enough - although I don't understand why you want me to use binary, since the code snippet in the comment that offended you is...

  • RE: Generation X

    Steve Jones - Editor (11/1/2009)


    I'd agree that the foundations were set with the generation before the boomers.

    Agree? Don't you mean disagree - after all, what I said was...

  • RE: T-SQL 2008

    hodgy (10/1/2009)


    Warren Gilbert (10/1/2009)


    I am also of the opinion that the answer is incorrect.

    The question specifically asks for extensions (subclauses) to the GROUP BY clause.

    GROUPING_ID is a function, NOT a...

  • RE: In Praise of Barebones Applications

    That's a great editorial. The gap between IT departments and their users, and the total lack of effective communication, isn't anything new but it does seem to be affecting...

  • RE: Generation X

    I'd like to think my generation is more interested and excited by technology than older or younger ones. After all, we came of age, learning older ways of doing things...

  • RE: Storing IPv4 Addresses for Performance

    Jean-Sebastien Carle (10/29/2009)


    How are you so sure that I am a DBA? I am, in fact, a Senior Systems Architect and Developer and simply extend my skill with SQL Server....

  • RE: Encryptionphobia

    david.gerrard-604066 (10/29/2009)


    Hi Tom,

    What you've described as 'not a problem' sounds pretty complicated to me!

    Well, it's pretty simple in principal, but the logistics can be not so simple. The...

  • RE: T-SQL Parsing Crazy Eights

    A good fun questioon.

    But I think it's a terrible pity that SQL Server is this forgiving - it would be better to treat such horrid, unsightly and unreadable code as...

  • RE: There's No Such Species as a DBA

    SimpleSimon (9/19/2009)


    Outgrown the term DBA? Unfortunately, yes.

    I am from the time when there weren't any DBAs, nor any other specialists. There were application programmers and systems programmers. And oh yes,...

  • RE: Storing IPv4 Addresses for Performance

    Elliott W (10/29/2009)


    Tom,

    I take exception to several things here.

    Elliot, if you think I intended to offend the author or malign him in any way, you are quite wrong. If...

  • RE: Indexes

    My reaction on looking at this was that there is so little data in the table that it would be a bug in the optimiser if it did anything other...

  • RE: Changing of the Guard

    Steve Jones - Editor (8/28/2009)


    Great analysis, GSquared, but it also means that we are assuming that the botnet doesn't get a hash of the password.

    To me that's the bigger...

  • RE: Changing of the Guard

    GSquared (8/28/2009)


    I see mandatory password changes on a fixed interval as a sop to security without any actual value, and with the potential of negative value.

    A great and valuable comment.

    Only...

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