Many of those things would be pretty useful David. Nice answer. Get yourself some new lights though, modern ones don't use that serial format, and LED types don't use much...

I shall use this opportunity to post the famed Bursledon Consultants Dress Code. It's so quaint, I love to re-read it occasionally!

For me I would avoid a gig requiring full...

Didn't know this was in SQL, had only seen it in Excel, may be useful (we might upgrade to 2012 in 2021 or so!). I've always used 'Take the first...

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I've heard noises from Spanish, Dutch, French and German data protection agencies that suggest they are not at all happy with the US because there seems to be a total...

I don't think the article is applicable to the kind of sites and development I do, is the way I would put this one.

I can see that for certain circumstances...

Oooh! I knew this one. Thus it must be an easy one 🙂

Still, I will only use triggers as a last resort in general, or as in the example for...

L' Eomot Inversé (9/8/2013)

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That Guardian article gets one thing horribly wrong. The BBC didn't follow the public into acceptance of the destruction of our freedoms, it went over to...

I'm going to say I'm probably edging towards Tom's perspective on this one.

As worrying as anything is a lack of concern on the part of journalists and ordinary folk to...

sqlnaive (8/27/2013)

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Thanks Hugo for confirming it.

See thats the profit of being a part of such a wonderful forum. I learned/clarified things more or less on daily basis even out of...

I've got an irrational hatred of views on tables from sorting out various endemic performance issues with systems which were essentially not very well designed. I acknowledge it was the...

I enjoyed this repost just for the reminder of Phil's excellent post The Septic Tank[/url] on the first page of the comments. Quite brilliant, I really must trawl through some...

DavidL (8/15/2013)

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Yours is a refreshingly honest self-appraisal... I often think people take far more credit for their success...

L' Eomot Inversé (7/7/2013)

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Nice easy one.

But it worries me a bit when I can instantly answer, off the top of my head, "Yes" to a question about whether two things...

Nice general advice, really liked the hero link from that post:

http://al3x.net/2010/01/09/dont-be-a-hero.html

It resonates for me because we have still got some hero code, the source of which cannot be traced, so...

Personally I'd suggest that if you are creating two temp tables...