I'd like to tell you all about my summer plans but it would all sound too cool and smug and I'd hate to make everyone jealous at how wild and...

The more I have learned about cognitive biases the more I wonder how anyone has ever got anything right. However much you think you have taken that step back and...

Well, I'm a developer and I do wear all of the hats discussed from time to time, though primarily the database side of development (my interaction with our sole DBA...

Welcome back Steve, nice to have you back in town, virtually speaking.

Hmm, as a developer I have little good to say on SSRS I'm afraid. I find it incredibly unwieldy and frustrating compared a library based reporting system like say Telerik...

Carlo Romagnano (7/10/2014)

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I'd like also a SPLIT/JOIN function as in VB. So, given a tab/cr limited string the function returns a table and viceversa.

PURGECHAR removes a list of chars from...

Sorry folks - wasn't trying to be contentious - just reflecting on the poor state of some shops I've encountered. I was pretty much agreeing with you Gary.

A slow day? But ... but ... but it's the vital quarter finals between France and Germany, and Brazil and Columbia? It's a quadrennial highlight! Surely no-one in their...

I think even those simple requirements would tax many shops to be fair Gary. I think it's a reasonable summary of minimum requirements - I don't think it's sensible to...

CodeFirst has a few nice features...there's the power tools and multiple diagrams per model features:

http://www.entityframeworktutorial.net/EntityFramework5/multiple-diagrams-in-entity-framework5.aspx

We are supposed to keep the kitchen tidy here. Many are too lazy and in traditional gender role play the women in the office tend to clean it up and...

I'm thankful that the World Cup has not yet commenced. This means we can still have some hope that our team might produce some entertaining football, and even progress to...

I'm afraid meteorological wisecracks are the limit of my interest for now - not because I wouldn't use AWS or anything but just because there's enough on my plate learning...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/30/2014)

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Gary Varga (5/30/2014)

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Good luck Steve. I really hope you get out of it something worthwhile whether or not it was what you intended.

PS Are you...

6 weeks sounds like a lot - if you were anything like me it might just disappear without you getting anything done, apart from improving Mario Kart skills.

Good luck...