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  • RE: Excuses Execrating Excel

    Clearly if Steve had written a poor editorial he wouldn't be putting it down to the tool he wrote it in.

    Has Word ever won a Pulitzer or Excel a Nobel...

    Gaz

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  • RE: A Billion Transactions

    I also think that we are going to have learn to throw away more data too. This will probably be a rough road in data management. Those of you who...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Asking for Interview Questions

    I think that those candidates of value will pick up this information and run with it and those trying to be devious will locate it anyway e.g. by pretending to...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Don't Be a Ghost

    fundpc (4/16/2013)


    We've become drones to the Internet where Facebook and other such sites allow us to record for posterity our every useless thought and moment.

    Networking is an important thing we...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Don't Be a Ghost

    Lynn Pettis (4/16/2013)


    I really don't think anyone here is saying that there is only one way to do things. What works for one person may not work for another....

    Gaz

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  • RE: Filtering results from SELECT on XML column

    Jack Corbett (4/5/2012)


    Pretty sure you want to use the .exist() method. Check out his blog post about it: http://www.jasonstrate.com/2010/11/xquery-for-the-non-expert-exist/

    Thanks Jack (sorry for being tardy with this overdue...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Don't Be a Ghost

    Of course, for some people their name will be a problem. Consider myself against a fictional peer who is a developer called Steve Jones but isn't the well respected editor...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Development, Operations, or Accounting

    Jeff Moden (4/5/2013)


    Jim P. (4/4/2013)


    Jeff Moden (4/4/2013)


    For example, if you have some performance challenged code that uses a huge number of resources because someone simply used DISTINCT to get past...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Insensitivity: A Good Technique?

    Why is it there is an expectancy for the "positive" emotionally related attitudes but any which are deemed "negative" are expected to be left at the door. Either one is...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Double Compliance

    Rarely is any endeavour that is worthwhile is without any pain. Of course, most people here (if not all) know that.

    I agree that a single regulation would work. For a...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Inconsistency

    lptech (3/18/2013)


    In the last 1-2 years, I have given up on religious wars in technology (this should not be taken in any way to have anything to do with real...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Inconsistency

    Lynn Pettis (3/15/2013)


    Okay, drop the religious debate. It will go where we really don't want it to go really fast.

    Sorry. My facetious comment was not aimed at any religion...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Inconsistency

    TravisDBA (3/15/2013)


    After observing mankind the last 3-4 decades I have changed my mind on the origins of mankind. I think L. Ron Hubbard may have been right. 😀

    By that I...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Inconsistency

    IMHO (3/15/2013)


    I used to think people who had two monitors were just being ostentatious...now that I have two I want three.

    I used to think Windows 7 was worse than XP...now...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Inconsistency

    I used to think that applying OO with rigid software engineering practices was always right but I now think that it is sometimes right.

    Unfortunately not enough people make it an...

    Gaz

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