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  • RE: Using Fuzzy Lookups for Record Linkage

    bnordberg (4/14/2009)

    ...find the person that made the database and give them a good tutorial on atomicity of fields!

    If only it were that easy!! I deal with data all the...

    April 14, 2009 at 8:04 am

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  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    Charles Kincaid (4/13/2009)

    110 baud? Yep, that IS high speed. 8-level too. My first word processor was a teletype with a reader and punch. Editing was a...

    April 13, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    #976826

  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    Jeff Moden (4/13/2009)

    Charles Kincaid (4/13/2009)

    Speaking of boards, one of the ones I kept hidden away was one that would dup a stack of cards and punch sequential numbers into the...

    April 13, 2009 at 12:29 pm

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  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    Jeff Moden (4/13/2009)

    Heh... I'm just glad I'm not the only old fart on this site. My first "program" was on unit record equipment that used a "peg board" module...

    April 13, 2009 at 7:06 am

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  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    Charles Kincaid (4/9/2009)

    COBOL is "Common Business Oriented Language" while APL is "A Programming Language". Admiral Hopper had a hand in both. COBOL was intended to solve business problems...

    April 9, 2009 at 6:31 am

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  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    Jeff Moden (4/7/2009)

    ... just don't want anyone forcing such rules on me.

    Now, THAT'S what I'm talking about! The use of brackets, though optional, is one of the rules of...

    April 7, 2009 at 11:18 am

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  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    Jeff Moden (4/6/2009)

    The "good enough" attitude in the face of schedule pressures is the frequent cause of unneccessary rule of thumb violations. My answer to such violations is "prove...

    April 6, 2009 at 8:33 am

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  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    Jeff Moden (4/6/2009) The first rule that many developers seem to omit is that the code actually has to work. 😉

    OK, you got me there!:-P However, I was referring...

    April 6, 2009 at 7:42 am

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  • RE: Annoying NULLs

    I also got this wrong because I thought that the second choice would also result in a null, so I expanded on the code a bit to test each condition:

    DECLARE...

    April 6, 2009 at 7:29 am

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  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    David Walker (4/3/2009)

    Although this is off the original topic, I still haven't seen a SQL statement that was easier to read with the aliases than without them. Please show...

    April 6, 2009 at 6:48 am

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  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    But, done properly, make the query rather self documenting.

    No. NO!!! NO!!!! The table name itself is the most accurate representation of what's being joined. ...

    April 3, 2009 at 3:01 pm

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  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    When you go to a toolbox, not the one in your IDE but a real one that holds a wrench, hammer, screwdriver and the like, do you pick up the...

    April 3, 2009 at 2:12 pm

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  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    katedgrt (4/3/2009)

    Grow up and learn that different is not always bad and new is not always better. I mean there is a point to keeping up your skills and...

    April 3, 2009 at 12:54 pm

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  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    Jason Miller (4/3/2009)

    I guess I'm strange, I prefer an language/environment where explicit definitions are required.

    I couldn't agree more. While it may be a pain to type in the "extra"...

    April 3, 2009 at 8:35 am

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  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    I think it all comes down to a paradigm. Folks who spend most of their time in an object-oriented environment tend to think in those terms. The same...

    April 3, 2009 at 7:07 am

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