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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...
Tom
November 4, 2009 at 9:16 am
Jean-Sebastien Carle (10/31/2009)
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...
Tom
November 3, 2009 at 5:56 am
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...
Tom
November 3, 2009 at 4:29 am
hodgy (10/1/2009)
Warren Gilbert (10/1/2009)
The question specifically asks for extensions (subclauses) to the GROUP BY clause.
GROUPING_ID is a function, NOT a...
Tom
November 1, 2009 at 5:14 am
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...
Tom
November 1, 2009 at 4:34 am
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...
Tom
October 31, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Jean-Sebastien Carle (10/29/2009)
Tom
October 31, 2009 at 5:56 am
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...
Tom
October 30, 2009 at 11:48 am
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...
Tom
October 29, 2009 at 5:22 pm
SimpleSimon (9/19/2009)
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,...
Tom
October 29, 2009 at 4:43 pm
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...
Tom
October 29, 2009 at 2:21 pm
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...
Tom
October 29, 2009 at 10:55 am
Steve Jones - Editor (8/28/2009)
To me that's the bigger...
Tom
October 29, 2009 at 9:50 am
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...
Tom
October 29, 2009 at 9:05 am
Jean-Sebastien Carle (10/28/2009)
Tom
October 29, 2009 at 8:10 am
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