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  • RE: T-SQL COALESCE

    call.copse (2/16/2016)

    Nice one, I'd just about had enough coffee not to be suckered into the empty string trap.

    There wasnt any empty string trap, the second argument was ' ' not...

    Tom

    February 16, 2016 at 8:30 am

    #1858995

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (2/15/2016)

    Sean Lange (2/15/2016)

    Grant Fritchey (2/15/2016)

    Hugo Kornelis (2/15/2016)

    jasona.work (2/15/2016)

    So, a question for everyone:

    How do you feel if someone comes back and tells you that they tested a solution you...

    Tom

    February 15, 2016 at 8:57 pm

    #1858893

  • RE: HEX conversions

    Jeff Moden (2/14/2016)

    One of many good reasons to always know your data and use explicit sizes for datatypes.

    Yes, datatype lengths and scales are NOT good things to use defaults for,...

    Tom

    February 15, 2016 at 7:15 am

    #1858773

  • RE: Culture and Performance

    djackson 22568 (2/8/2016)

    mike.gallamore (2/8/2016)

    I love how "total motivation" only includes 3 of the 6 factors. Management doesn't like to think that people are economically motivated because that means they might...

    Tom

    February 13, 2016 at 10:38 am

    #1858598

  • RE: Culture and Performance

    Ed Wagner (2/11/2016)

    TheFault (2/11/2016)

    I've met many people with a list of degrees and qualifications as long as your arm, who also have the common sense of a potato...

    Quite right. ...

    Tom

    February 13, 2016 at 9:40 am

    #1858588

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (2/11/2016)

    DonlSimpson (2/11/2016)

    Hugo Kornelis (2/11/2016)

    Anyway, back to out regular scheduled content for this topic....

    Ed Wagner (2/11/2016)

    Skynet

    Terminator

    Resistor

    Resistance

    capacitance

    Tom

    February 11, 2016 at 2:27 pm

    #1858191

  • RE: Foreign Key Indexes and Binding

    Well, the final paragraph horrfied me. A foreign Key is a CONSTRAINT. It is not a JOIN. JOINS and CONSTRAINTs are vastly different animals.

    The...

    Tom

    February 11, 2016 at 2:15 pm

    #1858184

  • RE: Bitwise OR

    Nice question, but the explanation is little sloppy; as the columns are ints, their binary representations each have 32 bits, not the 16 povided i teh explnation. Of course...

    Tom

    February 11, 2016 at 8:40 am

    #1858050

  • RE: CHECKSUM_AGG

    Hugo Kornelis (2/6/2016)

    sestell1 (2/5/2016)

    david.dilworth (2/5/2016)

    I had to look that function up as I hadn't seen it before.

    Is anyone able to provide a real-world example demonstrating the usage? What I'm...

    Tom

    February 6, 2016 at 9:25 am

    #1856997

  • RE: CHECKSUM_AGG

    Sean Lange (2/5/2016)

    DonlSimpson (2/5/2016)

    I don't like this part of the answer: "across all rows in a table" because the result can be confined by a where clause.

    And you can also...

    Tom

    February 5, 2016 at 3:15 pm

    #1856971

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (2/4/2016)

    So we were talking about Safe Harbor and data laws the other day, yes?

    And now Slate.com has this article about a new data transfer agreement.

    I think it is...

    Tom

    February 4, 2016 at 1:40 pm

    #1856678

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (2/3/2016)

    SQLRNNR (2/1/2016)

    GilaMonster (1/30/2016)

    Ed Wagner (1/29/2016)

    Is it really that much better than SSMS intellsense? I'm asking because I don't know; not trying to start a riot.

    Oh,...

    Tom

    February 4, 2016 at 1:17 pm

    #1856667

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    edit: delete

    - misread something badly.

    Tom

    February 4, 2016 at 12:27 pm

    #1856641

  • RE: The New Operating System

    mjh 45389 (2/4/2016)

    The problem I see is empowering and trusting people. Over the last 30 years I have worked for companies ranging in size from 5 to 4000 people in...

    Tom

    February 4, 2016 at 12:10 pm

    #1856636

  • RE: The New Operating System

    Eric M Russell (2/4/2016)

    Some good ideas (like open source software, open IT floor plans, and telecommuting) come out of startups and are adopted by the larger corporate establishment. However, much...

    Tom

    February 4, 2016 at 12:04 pm

    #1856634

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