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I worked for one of the software vendors for healthcare products. They're out of business now. We actually had very good developers, but a CEO that thought that IT knowledge...
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June 1, 2007 at 7:47 am
It comes down to the classic DBA answer, it depends. I've primarily done work for internal applications, code that runs in-house for a company doing X. Platforms I've done that...
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June 1, 2007 at 5:32 am
I've seen similar behavior. I never saw that in 2000.
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June 1, 2007 at 5:22 am
I have to agree. In a real interview situation this code would scare me off.
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June 1, 2007 at 5:17 am
Great response. First, I was joking about actually using this as an interview question. However, the excercise is interesting because it does force you to apply logic and a bit...
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June 1, 2007 at 5:15 am
I have to say I was really surprised at how much response this little article generated. I dashed it off after we had our fun with it. I didn't think...
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May 30, 2007 at 5:04 am
Ladies... The signal to noise ratio is starting to drop a bit. This was supposed to be a bit of candy for some intellectual stimulation a little bit different than...
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May 29, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Looks cool. I'm going to pass it out to the team & see what they think.
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May 29, 2007 at 12:12 pm
All true. Honestly we only allowed it to pass because all the answers we were getting were so damned pathetic. We also allowed people count dropping and recreating the proc...
"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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May 29, 2007 at 8:07 am
I just wish it was only people interviewing for their first jobs. We're getting people with 5-8 years of "experience" that don't know the answer. I'd attribute it to nervousness,...
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May 29, 2007 at 7:51 am
I'm sorry, I've only got 2005 installed on my systems these days. I can't readily test this.
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May 29, 2007 at 5:44 am
True.
"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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May 29, 2007 at 5:43 am
Hey, thanks for the reply to the article. Yes, I'd like to see a mechanism for unit testing SSIS as well. I think it'd probably be more useful than testing...
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May 29, 2007 at 5:42 am
Forgive us our typos. Absolutely. The most you'd get gigged for only going to 99 is some good natured ribbing about being premature or something.
It's amazing how much discussion what...
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May 29, 2007 at 5:39 am
Yikes.
I haven't seen that many GOTO's in quite a while. Nice job.
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May 29, 2007 at 5:26 am
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