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  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    crookj (3/8/2016)


    TomThomson (3/8/2016)


    crookj (3/8/2016)


    Happy International Women's Day!

    Did I miss something similar on Jan 19th this year, or .... ?

    Wasn't that National Popcorn Day?

    International, not national, and popcorn comes...

  • RE: DeveloperBall

    Gary Varga (3/8/2016)


    TomThomson (3/8/2016)


    ...That desire to contribute is something which is very hard to capture in data, to measure, and it is far more important than any soft skill -...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    whereisSQL? (3/8/2016)


    Ray K (3/8/2016)


    Ed Wagner (3/8/2016)


    djj (3/8/2016)


    Ed Wagner (3/8/2016)


    Grumpy DBA (3/8/2016)


    Ed Wagner (3/8/2016)


    Patchy

    the Pirate

    Pittsburgh

    Steel

    Sword

    Pen

    Ink

    Octopus

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    crookj (3/8/2016)


    Happy International Women's Day!

    Did I miss something similar on Jan 19th this year, or .... ?

  • RE: DeveloperBall

    Gary Varga (1/26/2016)


    Data can capture the hard skills but not so much the soft skills e.g how does one describe communication skills?

    If data can't capture the soft skills it's clear...

  • RE: Culture and Performance

    Gary Varga (2/15/2016)


    Motivation is often talked about but rarely acted upon. Automatic fail.

    I think you are wrong there. Motivation (when there is any) is often acted on. It...

  • RE: Reasonable Timeframes

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/12/2016)


    EdVassie (2/12/2016)


    I sympathize with those people dependent on mainframe systems

    A little rant... I worked on mainframe systems, and they are documented to the same...

  • RE: Default Data Masking

    Nice question.

    It's great to see this feature come to SQL Server, and the various masking options and the permissions arrangement look well thought out.

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    crookj (3/7/2016)


    Ray K (3/7/2016)


    Ed Wagner (3/7/2016)


    Luis Cazares (3/7/2016)


    Grumpy DBA (3/7/2016)


    whereisSQL? (3/7/2016)


    Control

    Freak

    Freakazoid!

    Arkanoid

    Trapezoid

    parallelogram

    parallelepiped

  • RE: How many peers?

    Interesting question. I decided to treat it as simple arithmetic (what's pproximately 2**63 /10**9) so I got it "right".

    But is it really right? Are there perhaps system...

  • RE: How many peers?

    deleted - somehow got posted twice.

  • RE: SQL query

    Stewart "Arturius" Campbell (3/7/2016)


    Nice one, thanks Mohammad.

    Yes, very nice.

    Read it as "how many rows retuned" first time round (pre-coffee).

    Me too!

    Fortunately reread it before clicking submit...

    I was less fortunate (because I...

  • RE: SQL query

    accidental duplicate deleted

  • RE: Open is Not Necessarily More Secure

    David.Poole (3/4/2016)


    Way back in the 1990s I worked with a guy who used to say that the more expensive the software the more the bugs. In general I have...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (3/3/2016)


    Big Bun (I hope someone remembers the reference)

    dai bao ??

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