In some cases (most?) managers are very demanding of information that is time consuming to produce be it in the form of emails or spreadsheets. I have rarely met managers...

To be honest Peter I was just voicing concerns that I would want calculated at a design stage and measured in a prototype. If I was part of the development...

I do like some of your ideas Peter but my concern would be the performance overhead. When updating a variably size number that is larger than the currently allocated size?...

Have I missed the point?

Toasters are generic e.g. browsers, text editors, word processors, file comparison tools, code editors, source control systems, etc.

Surely if we say need to use Chrome, Notepad++,...

I would have...

Gary Varga (10/24/2014)

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Ben Moorhouse (2/5/2010)

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Mine's got to be Notepad. I use it to write SO MUCH code, and it's always there as a quick 2nd clipboard. Plus, as with the...

Ben Moorhouse (2/5/2010)

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Mine's got to be Notepad. I use it to write SO MUCH code, and it's always there as a quick 2nd clipboard. Plus, as with the IE comment...

The online help specifies that for Database.SetOwner the loginName is:

i.e. a SQL Server account.

What is the error?

Miles Neale (10/23/2014)

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Gary Varga (10/23/2014)

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Miles Neale (10/22/2014)

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Remember the story of two camels walking through the desert and they are walking and walking, and then one turns to the other and...

TomThomson (10/23/2014)

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...I agree that XML doesn't always provide an answer (in my experience a decision to use XML has more often been part of the problem than part of the...

Yet Another DBA (10/23/2014)

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Gary Varga (10/23/2014)

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Not sure that I like the...

Not sure that I like the thought of being forced to...

I think that there is a serious issue of backwards compatibility here. It may be likely that changing the existing functions would break current uses. This would require either an...

No.