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  • RE: Effective Dating Series Part I - The Problem

    Nadrek (10/1/2009)


    jcrawf02 (10/1/2009)


    Why would you want the db to do this? Why wouldn't you require the application to..[clipped]..the app takes care of the rest.

    Philosophically, with this argument, why do...

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  • RE: In Praise of Barebones Applications

    Phil Factor (10/1/2009)


    If you're building a vehicle for human space flight or a nuclear reactor, the first choice is more likely to yield fewer dead astronauts and giant holes in...

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  • RE: In Praise of Barebones Applications

    GSquared (10/1/2009)My own software career started out with an Access database, and it was junk. But it was better than what we had prior (which was post-it notes). ...

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  • RE: Effective Dating Series Part I - The Problem

    Why would you want the db to do this? Why wouldn't you require the application to term the existing record with the timestamp when the change occurred -1 (millisecond, second,...

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  • RE: In Praise of Barebones Applications

    notquitexena (10/1/2009)


    Jeff Moden (9/30/2009)


    I'm all for POP (Proof of Principle) code... the problem is, that people don't make such code scalable to begin with. People want the code real...

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  • RE: Effective Dating Series Part I - The Problem

    Wow 'em with your disaster recovery model! 😛

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  • RE: In Praise of Barebones Applications

    Actual case: Business group has need. IT is not staffed to handle that need as a priority because management has not made that need a priority. But since everyone has...

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  • RE: Effective Dating Series Part I - The Problem

    Not sure I completely follow what Nadrek is saying, but had a thought. (who knew?)

    How in a global enterprise would you account for sales beginning/ending across time zones? Multiple records...

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  • RE: In Praise of Barebones Applications

    Stephanie's post seems like a good transition here, I just saw this article in an ACM newsletter, and am now wondering if this would serve to widen the gap or...

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  • RE: In Praise of Barebones Applications

    GSquared (10/1/2009)


    Extinction is the result of too low a mutation rate in a changing environment.

    And that is the best argument so far. Nice one, Gus.

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  • RE: Effective Dating Series Part I - The Problem

    dan-579597 (10/1/2009)


    Thinking about where to put the dates:

    I'm not sure if this is better or just over-engineering, but what about a PromotionInstance (PI) table between Promotion (P) and PromotionProduct...

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  • RE: Effective Dating Series Part I - The Problem

    Mod -1, how is this article supposed to help me get a date?!

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  • RE: In Praise of Barebones Applications

    Garry, I think that's part of Phil's point and part of the problem though, that the IT side feels that they don't need to keep the business side informed or...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Actually Silverfox, my crunchy ice cream experience aside, I thought this one was an ok answer. At least the OP was supplied with a topic name that would quickly answer...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Silverfox (9/28/2009)


    Is it just me, or are some of the answers recently not matching up to the questions asked.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic793172-9-1.aspx

    What is the point of answering a question with something that needs...

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