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Oh, and, while I like their products, Idera's god-awful orange shirts make great rags.
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August 24, 2007 at 6:24 am
My boss... uh, I mean, wife lets me keep the geek shirts. I just threw away about 20 myself though. Current favorites are still the SQL Server 2005 "verb" shirts....
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August 24, 2007 at 6:22 am
To a very large degree I agree with this approach. The question comes in, how do you define "work." It "works" in that it returns the data I want and...
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August 17, 2007 at 11:39 am
About four years ago we ran into a problem where a major piece of functionality had been developed with only minimal DBA involvement (we had a DBA on the project,...
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August 17, 2007 at 6:53 am
This is rather amazing. I'm shocked it's still going on.
The quiz (not my invention by the way, it was old when I found it over on the programming web site)...
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August 6, 2007 at 5:33 am
Stump the Wizard sounds like fun. I'll have to try it with the Cub Scouts.
One we do is called the Quiz. Usually we pick a topic, animals is my daughter's...
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August 3, 2007 at 8:10 am
I kind of hate these silly quibbles, especially over something trivial, but... The statement did in fact imply that only one case should be applied. It did not state that...
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
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August 3, 2007 at 7:53 am
First off, everyone is taking this FAR too seriously.
That said, most of the functional solutions I've seen work fine for numbers divisible by 15. Inherently anything divisible by 15...
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August 3, 2007 at 4:43 am
I work for an insurance company who's primary tenet is that most loss is avoidable. They're all about managing risk. The key here is managing risk, not avoiding risk. It's...
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August 2, 2007 at 6:24 am
Darn, I would have failed that interview because I thought they were to keep your shoes from stinking.
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July 27, 2007 at 8:51 am
It sounds like you're almost using the tool backwards. We've been spending all our time working on the schema, in source control, and then we automate getting it out to...
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July 26, 2007 at 11:16 am
No doubt that Jacob's article on Unit Testing will be as good as the job he did on this one. You might also want to check out the two I posted...
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July 25, 2007 at 8:10 am
Nice introduction to DBPro. Well written.
But, I have to agree with Mr. Leach on the basic point that instead of comparing databases as a deployment methodology, we in the database...
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July 25, 2007 at 5:22 am
One for the car would be really cool.
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July 11, 2007 at 6:46 am
Whoa! Wait a second here. Superman is imaginary?
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June 20, 2007 at 5:21 pm
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