I think it is worth mentioning that both Apex SQLDoc and Innovasys DocumentX use special (and virtually identical) comment tags so that they can suck out the comments and build...

In the UK there have been a number of complaints from consumers who have been disappointed with the fuel consumption of the hybrid cars.

I think it is more a case...

Here's an embarrassing confession.

Knowing that Metadata is data about data I thought that Wayne Rooney's broken metatarsal was the cancellation of his book deal.

It depends on what you are intending to track for a sport.

• Results
• Telemetry
• Transactions at the betting shop

I worked (very briefly) at one of the smaller betting companies and their need to...

I'm not sure about the criminal bit but other than that it is a good description.

The other thing that makes Brit's good hackers is having to deliver miracles using hardware/software...

Any fool can build something complicated and the telecoms industry has some of the smartest fools in existence.

In the UK we have "Vodaphone Simple" which is just a phone and...

Thanks but in the proc I my paramter is an XML type writing to a field of an XML type.

When I am declaring the SqlParameter in .NET what type should...

You have to be very careful with these surveys and look at who is sponsoring them.

For example, directors of UK companies hire an independent wage consultant to set their salaries....

My mum used to do an annual collection of charity boxes for the NSPCC and had to tot up and log the amounts by hand.

I wrote a program on the...

SQL Server does not have a separate time field.

SMALLDATETIME contains dates and times accurate to the minute

DATETIME contains dates and times accurate to 3 milliseconds.

If you want to change the...

Some life's observations from an old fart

• No organisation shrinks to greatness!
• But it doesn't stop them trying
• Layoffs get exponentially scarier when you breach 40
• Pay peanuts, get monkeys
• If you work for a...

After a stiff expresso I sorted it.

Table structure was loosely

• ProductId
• DateFrom
• DateTo
• Price

Ages were produced by a table function returning a single column of ages.

What I wanted was to bring back all products...

If you have 6 instances spread across 2 nodes (making 6 virtual and 12 real) then you need to apply the service pack to your 6 instances.

SP4 is cluster aware...

My experience of training has been varied.

The best one was when the official trainer had called in sick and a emergency contractor had to be called in. He taught...

A person who does a good job makes it look easy. If it looks easy then it looks as if anyone could do it.