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  • RE: Relational database - rarely more efficient to store snippets of non relational data against a record - thoughts?

    Hughesy (7/27/2015)


    I was starting to think that MARS was a good idea but I understand that in SQL 2014 MARS is not allowed on in memory tables so I need...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Relational database - rarely more efficient to store snippets of non relational data against a record - thoughts?

    Sean Lange (7/27/2015)


    Eric M Russell (7/27/2015)


    SQL Server stored procedure calls can accomodate multi-valued input paramters, if that's what you're talking about here. By this, I mean you can pass in...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Relational database - rarely more efficient to store snippets of non relational data against a record - thoughts?

    SQL Server stored procedure calls can accomodate multi-valued input paramters, if that's what you're talking about here. By this, I mean you can pass in a string of multiple invoice...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Relational database - rarely more efficient to store snippets of non relational data against a record - thoughts?

    I'm not sure I understand what is meant by the application having to make secondary database calls. For example, if you have a SQL Server database containing invoices with multiple...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: What We Want and What We'll Pay For

    Economic forecasts are not a good reason for an organization to grow or shrink their IT staff (hire and retain the right mix and number of staff based on what...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: What We Want and What We'll Pay For

    According to Gallup polls, more than half of Americans say they want to lose weight, but that's not necessarily a reason for gym owners to expect a surge in membership...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Is Skynet Coming?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/24/2015)


    Eric M Russell (7/24/2015)


    rclark-1124819 (7/24/2015)


    if I didn't drop a zero somewhere, the 7 billion in population would fit into the state of Colorado if we...

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  • RE: Is Skynet Coming?

    rclark-1124819 (7/24/2015)


    if I didn't drop a zero somewhere, the 7 billion in population would fit into the state of Colorado if we all lived in the density of the country...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Is Skynet Coming?

    Chris Harshman (7/24/2015)

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    Think about the times on Jeopardy (it was only a few but still) where the response required some kind of reasoning, common sense, or other ability...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Is Skynet Coming?

    What makes AI so useful; it's not just the fact that it can make decisions faster, it's that an AI is (ideally) not subject to the same biases, physical shortcomings,...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Is Skynet Coming?

    The problem with technology is that at some point it stops being about science and practical commercial applications and instead is driven by pedestrian consumer demand and marketing. I mean,...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Is Skynet Coming?

    I'm not concerned about robot overlords exterminating mankind in the future, but I do believe that artificial intelligence has created a sort of soft tyranny here and now. Think about...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: How to join a local table to a remote table by way of a linked server

    Naveen PK (7/23/2015)


    My company has central database server and all other database servers subscribe to that central server to keep a local copy (nightly replicated). That way I dont need...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Continuous Delivery In Real Life

    jckfla (7/21/2015)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/20/2015)


    jckfla (7/20/2015)


    Maybe I'm not seeing something right about CI...but to me, it seems to me very loosely defined.

    I would think Continuous Integration would be...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: There Are Always Constraints

    That's why, when gathering and documenting requirements for a new project, it's helpful to also document separately what is Out Of Scope. Not only does it keep the development on...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

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