dale_berta (7/21/2016)

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Interesting. Is this in every release of T-SQL, or could this vary?

I only ever use the += with single values on the right-hand side, so I haven't encountered this....

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/21/2016)

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Jeff Moden (7/21/2016)

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I can't agree that the computer math was any different than regular math in this case. The computer math was spot on....

Nice straightforward question.

This is one of those things (like the handling of SUM) the makes me think that someone had a screw loose when they were specifying how aggregates worked...

Nice and easy one today

I very much like this editorial, it is about what sort of thing the process actually is unlike most of the awful hype about Devops, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and...

BWFC (7/11/2016)

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rob.carter 79958 (7/11/2016)

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I'd echo the point about personal information, though I'm in a healthcare environment so it would be patient information that would be "cloudified" (I'm trademarking that).

As I'm...

We also have a Need for DBAs Who Are Literate About Relational Database Design.

Are developers...

liver.larson (7/8/2016)

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I think this a pretty fantastic vision, really. It's easy to get caught up in the practical challenges of what it would take to even take a meaningful step...

djackson 22568 (7/7/2016)

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I am not sure of the background education of everyone here, but my guess is that there are at least a few people who are unaware of the...

Actually, I think you got a terrible...

Good editorial, but I'm in total disagreement with the final sentence:

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Above all, however, no matter what your deployment mechanism for updates, you need to be sure that any data...

David.Poole (6/29/2016)

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I've seen people carve themselves a lucrative niche producing artifacts in support of popular opinion and beautifying the obvious. The ones that say the data doesn't support your...

David.Poole (6/28/2016)

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The big challenge with statistics is in communicating what the results actually mean. Understanding that point 51.9 vs 48.1 has no significance in a small sample but becomes...

Beatrix Kiddo (6/30/2016)

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I work in DevOps, and we don't let developers promote to Production. They take the build all the way through their pipeline, then hand it over to Production...

If SSIS were a civilised piece or work it would give me the option to tell it allow or disallow truncation, and if I picked disallow tell it what to...