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  • RE: Hierarchies on Steroids #1: Convert an Adjacency List to Nested Sets

    ...whole books, hundreds of chapters, and thousands of Internet articles have been written on the subject and it's impossible for me to cover all of the aspects of the subject...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: A Tale of Broken BI

    Would it be fair to say that in nearly all the examples here, the “raw” data simply wasn’t raw enough? As soon as you’re pulling data into your ETL system...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Parsing Parameters in a Stored Procedure

    Jeff Moden (8/11/2010)


    If the data is worth having, it's worth validating.

    I'm gonna print that out and stick it on the wall of my office and make people read it to...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: The Technical Nuances of Technical Writing

    Good article, Jamie. We should apply the principles espoused therein to forum posts as well. A word of caution though. If you're going to us spelling and grammar checking software,...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Ten Million Lines of Code

    Regardless of the integration or compilation technique, 10 million lines of code may be an advertisement for how to do things badly, not well. Over a year ago, I walked...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: The Longevity of the Relational Database

    Just because the relational model has a very good track record, doesn't mean we shouldn't be careful what we take for granted. For example, if someone had told me even...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Display data by fiscal year instead of calendar year

    There are four things to take away from this thread.

    1. Celko is right.

    2. Celko has a few runs on the board. He's better qualified to comment than most.

    3. A calendar...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: T-SQL Syntax

    Cliff Jones (8/17/2012)


    I had no idea what the correct answer was and still don't.

    +1

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Basic of T-SQL

    Got it right because I guessed what the op was getting at but I think the question should have been proof-read and tidied up before publication.

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Views and changes

    I wonder whether all SELECT * in views are created equal. That is to say equally evil. For example is a SELECT* from a preceding CTE just as bad...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Generating Non-uniform Random Numbers with SQL

    Don't suppose that picture of the fish is a veiled reference to poisson?

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Generating Non-uniform Random Numbers with SQL

    A stunning contribution to the discussion Dwain. The SQL Server world just got a little better.

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Adding Map Callout Boxes in Reporting Services

    Haven't tested it yet, but on face value it looks really quite superb. Many thanks.

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: SQL Server Browser & DAC

    L' Eomot Inversé (6/13/2012)

    ...Even when I didn't have full control, I usually had a recruitment veto (since the late 70s, anyway, and I didn't meet any DBAs before then) so...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Generating Test Data: Part 2 - Generating Sequential and Random Dates

    Now that we're all up-to-speed on generating test data, 😉 you know what would be trez cool (not suggesting that Jeff should have to do it, but it would be...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

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