The exclusion of special characters mentioned in the editorial is a far too common bad practice. It's sometimes taken to extremes - characters with accents count as special, only...

William Rayer (2/4/2016)

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Just for info, neither of the links in this article work. The link from "an interesting piece" shows an error saying "The website declined to show this webpage"...

Definitely an interesting editorial, and a question well worth asking. My answer is look at the requirements and see whether it will be better to use a database (not...

Good question, this is a function that everyone should know. It reduces the coding required for validating input enormously.

Maybe the question and answers should also have referred to nasty...

Hugo Kornelis (2/3/2016)

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At first I had the server option selected as well.

Then I recalled that the connect option at server level is actually called CONNECT SQL, not just CONNECT, so...

I tend to agree with Jeff's aproach to this - nothing gets into production without going through proper authorisation and being recorded in the VCS.

However, I agree with those who...

Andy Warren (2/2/2016)

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I'm interested in the why. I like source control, use it all the time for code. Why isn't it used as naturally/often for the database? Is it really...

I thought the most likely cause of the DBCC error message was lack of tempdb space for the snapshot it creates; so restarting the instance would ensure that tempdb...

ARGHHH! Create not execute!!!!

I'm in careless mode tonight (eldest son just pointed me at robozzle.com, which I hadn't seen before, result is that I'm temporarily unable...

Not pedantic. Merely...

Bob JH Cullen (2/1/2016)

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This is yet another one of those things in SQL Server which appear counter-intuitive. To me, at least. If I want to check that any data in...

I was a bit muddled...

DeWayne_McCallie (1/27/2016)

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I'm not retired (yet); but, I was a master at loading DOS device drivers (I started on DOS v3) in high memory (CD Device drivers etc...) to free up...

djackson 22568 (1/26/2016)

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TomThomson (1/26/2016)

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... That's why I think someone who is too dim or too lazy to learn to understand the relational model and write code adapted to that...

What ? :w00t: ?

Don't you have those every day ? 😉