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  • RE: Uptime = Downtime? (Database Weekly, Aug 3, 2009)

    umailedit (8/3/2009)

    I always thought in software it is a golden rule not fallacy. 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'. Maybe it is a fallacy for hardware but not...

    Tom

    October 25, 2009 at 7:21 pm

    #1070476

  • RE: The Danger of Algorithms

    Steve Jones - Editor (7/27/2009)

    As far as banks and VISA. They do make mistakes, but they also have procedures and ideas about security. They get attacked, and maybe if they...

    Tom

    October 24, 2009 at 11:34 am

    #1070399

  • RE: The Reading Poll

    I think Amazon did rather badly on 1984, but they say they won't do it again. It's a definite disadvantage of e-books that something like that can be done.

    I...

    Tom

    October 24, 2009 at 11:06 am

    #1070396

  • RE: column & data type.

    sknox (7/23/2009)

    Carlo Romagnano (7/23/2009)

    Lynn Pettis (7/23/2009)

    There really should have been a third choice: It Depends. It really does, what data type is being converted to what data type?

    For example...

    Tom

    October 24, 2009 at 8:59 am

    #1070382

  • RE: Certification High School

    Steve Jones - Editor (7/20/2009)

    Many HR groups use certifications as a filter. If you don't have them, they might discard your resume.

    I used to use MS certifications as a filter...

    Tom

    October 24, 2009 at 6:37 am

    #1070368

  • RE: Basically Available, Soft State, Eventually Consistent

    Relational, Network, Hierarchical, OO models seem to be all that are talked abot these days - whatever happened to Functional? Doesn't anyone look at this any more? Or...

    Tom

    October 24, 2009 at 3:43 am

    #1070360

  • RE: Basically Available, Soft State, Eventually Consistent

    ganotedp (7/13/2009)

    Go to bottom of page here for one assessment of advantages of each: http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~chang/156/20dbdesign.html

    I was amused to see, after the description of link representation in the 4 models...

    Tom

    October 24, 2009 at 3:36 am

    #1070359

  • RE: Making Demands

    stevet-1034619 (10/23/2009)

    It think it took Tom this long just to compile his list...which deserves some kind of special award. Think it was Spicoli in Fast Times that said, "I wanna...

    Tom

    October 24, 2009 at 3:00 am

    #1070358

  • RE: Administering Securely

    rboggess (8/11/2009)

    I ran into this article (http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=7690) and immediately recognized the potential applications here. Thought other readers might find this interesting.

    Oh, please! This solves the wrong problem. Suppose...

    Tom

    October 23, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    #1070240

  • RE: Making Demands

    I guess I would have requirements in the food, drink, and entertainment categories, as well as a large and comfortable suite with decent (and noiseless) temperature and humidity control, high...

    Tom

    October 23, 2009 at 9:07 am

    #1070099

  • RE: Slack SQL Server

    Jeff Moden (6/23/2009)

    Tom.Thomson (6/23/2009)

    the foreign key constraint - but that only works if the target is (a) unique and (b) the primary key.

    I'm pretty sure that only half of that...

    Tom

    June 26, 2009 at 5:11 am

    #1015915

  • RE: Extracting a Numeric Reference from a VARCHAR field

    brewmanz (11/24/2008)

    I'm glad that this QOTD caused some deep thinking. It was prompted by a real-life problem, although it wasn't as constrained as I made it. The original input field...

    Tom

    June 25, 2009 at 12:24 pm

    #1015538

  • RE: Money

    I guess I must be getting the hang of scoring points questions of the day at last. I deliberately selected the incorrect answer that I guessed the question's poser would...

    Tom

    June 25, 2009 at 11:14 am

    #1015486

  • RE: T-SQL

    Hugo Kornelis (2/10/2009)

    Either the author of the question wrote this question to educate people about the existance of the IDENTITY() function, in which case SELECT INTO would be the expected...

    Tom

    June 25, 2009 at 8:35 am

    #1015344

  • RE: T-SQL

    Bob Hovious (2/11/2009)

    A useful general rule, but not always possible to implement:

    * When one of the columns in the candidate key is nullable

    * When there is no candidate key (no...

    Tom

    June 25, 2009 at 8:19 am

    #1015336

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