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It never ceases to amaze me just how easy movies and TV make complex computing tasks like hacking unknown systems (what if the aliens didn't have a binary system?), high-speed...
July 4, 2016 at 5:00 am
pietlinden (6/30/2016)
June 30, 2016 at 2:52 pm
Jeff Moden (6/29/2016)
I treat SSN as one of the most sacred of all pieces of PII even if the Social Security Administration and the medical/financial/general community at large does not.
Yeah,...
June 29, 2016 at 2:58 pm
Personally, I prefer using an account name as email addresses are much more subject to change. I've had issues where I could not change my email account (not on...
June 29, 2016 at 12:35 pm
xsevensinzx (6/24/2016)
June 24, 2016 at 2:39 pm
I've lost track of the number of database applications that I've built from scratch over the last 30 years. One thing is true though, I never got them completely...
June 24, 2016 at 5:47 am
kerry_hood (6/24/2016)
A bit scary for our future databases.
Way back when I was in school (still in the days of green bar line printers) subjects like database theory, set theory, and...
June 24, 2016 at 4:27 am
g.britton (6/10/2016)
In the spirit of DRY, I feel I should point out that this variant repeats references
Yes, you are correct that column references are repeated. I feel that those...
June 10, 2016 at 7:30 am
The use of APPLY is interesting and I did learn a couple of things, but in my opinion the CTE approach exemplified earlier is cleaner and easier to read especially...
June 10, 2016 at 6:06 am
Lynn Pettis (6/6/2016)
I don't agree with teaching a crutch.
It's not teaching the crutch, but teaching that the crutch is NOT NECESSARY.
June 6, 2016 at 8:26 am
Toreador (6/6/2016)
Aaron N. Cutshall (6/6/2016)
However, I do understand the intent of the QotD however it was presented.What was that intent, to encourage sloppy coding?
Yes, it's a lazy approach that some...
June 6, 2016 at 8:25 am
Lynn Pettis (6/6/2016)
Actually, if you add a statement using a CTE after a statement that is not properly terminated, go back and properly terminate it. Simple.
That's what I do...
June 6, 2016 at 8:09 am
Terje Hermanseter (6/3/2016)
I don't understand why MS is wavering on the commitment to enforce them as they've been part of the ISO-1999 standard for a very long time.
Too much old...
June 3, 2016 at 6:31 am
paul s-306273 (6/3/2016)
From my old days of Oracle, I seem to remember it was compulsory in SQL*Plus;
We've been told for some time (since 2005 I think) that semicolons were going...
June 3, 2016 at 6:15 am
Recce70 (3/15/2016)
March 15, 2016 at 1:24 pm
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