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  • RE: The Cult of Mediocrity

    sturner (6/26/2012)


    GSquared (6/26/2012)


    Shall I continue? Or just read the Constitution and you'll see a list of the critical services and enforcement needs. It's very finite, though subject to...

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  • RE: The Cult of Mediocrity

    jbnv (6/26/2012)


    patrickmcginnis59 (6/26/2012)I'm pointing out that you have not addressed the free market response to a visibly bad actor. There very well could be an answer here, thats why I'm...

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  • RE: The Cult of Mediocrity

    sturner (6/26/2012)


    archie flockhart (6/26/2012)


    eventually you have to provide a viable service and actually make a profit or you go bankrupt.

    Or you need to accept that there are some things...

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  • RE: Documenting the Undocumented

    Agreed. This isn't a video game, where undocumented "easter eggs" are fun to discover. It's supposed to be an enterprise-level toolkit for managing data.

    Imagine if you bought a...

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  • RE: Like or IN or exists ??

    You're welcome.

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  • RE: COALESCE

    Jan Van der Eecken (6/25/2012)


    Unless they coded ISNULL(a,b) as a wrapper around COALESCE(x1,x2,...,xn), which I would probably have done, just from a maintainability point of view. Then ISNULL should actually...

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  • RE: Triggers not working correctly

    I'd need to see the code for the triggers and the create scripts for the tables, before I could offer any help on this.

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  • RE: COALESCE

    Nah. It's a perfectly good question.

    Another thing to keep in mind about IsNull vs Coalesce is that Coalesce is ISO-standard SQL, and has some slight advantages because of that.

    However,...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Matt Miller (#4) (6/25/2012)


    GSquared (6/25/2012)


    Actually, if you define "NULL" as "unknown value" as opposed to "no value", then one could define a nullable char(1) column as "we may not know...

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  • RE: The Next Generation

    I'm not sure "we" are the right people to be marketing this career. Maybe "we" are, but doesn't that sort of get into the whole guild concept (master/journeyman/apprentice, and...

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  • RE: Date in EST

    There are options beyond GetDate that may be more appropriate. Check here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188383.aspx

    Some of them include the time offset from UTC, so you can easily use those for EST/CST/EDT/CDT/Arizona-time/etc.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Matt Miller (#4) (6/25/2012)


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    Matt Miller (#4) (6/25/2012)


    Because the CHAR data type is defined as a fixed length type. What's the "length" of NULL?

    One byte in the...

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  • RE: Identify and compare text between characters

    I'm going to recommend doing this in something other than T-SQL. Like a .NET assembly. Where you can use RegEx functionality for it.

    However, if you insist on doing...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Matt Miller (#4) (6/25/2012)


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    Sean Lange (6/25/2012)


    Stefan Krzywicki (6/25/2012)


    Don't you love columns with "number" in the name that are typed as char or varchar?

    Or the...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    L' Eomot Inversé (6/20/2012)


    The thread seems very quiet. I've been away three days and there are only 62 new posts on it.

    But I may not find...

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