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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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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"...

  • 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...

  • RE: Are We Wasting Too Much Time Social Networking?

    My dad always told me that too much of anything, even a good thing, can be bad for you. I can't think of any example that is more applicable...

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