Something I think you'll find here is that even if you don't agree with an author, or you find an article to be somewhat less than helpful to your situation,...

All good tips, the one thing to remember at all times when speaking to any level of management is to represent in black and white how what you are presenting...

GSquared (6/16/2008)

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It depends on "incorrect". If, for example, precision exceedes accuracy, that's wasted effort.

If an airplane's (or ship's)...

Matt Miller (6/16/2008)

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Jeff - I will post my own script later. I kind of got busy yesterday and didn't get a chance to come back and finish the thought...

rbarryyoung (6/15/2008)

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Are we thinking of the same thing? I thought the concatenation function was...

I think you're all saying basically the same things, you need your software to be 'directionally correct', as the finance folks at my organization like to say. If it doesn't...

Is a 'test-off' like a 'dance-off'? should I go get some cardboard?

Not being able to resist . . .

precisely...

When I began reading this article, I wondered why it had been chosen to be re-posted, as I've read several other articles by Jeff, Matt, et al that demonstrate the...

I can only think of one response to this article -

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com

Not affiliated to Tim Ferriss at all, just jealous. (and plotting . . .);)

Which damn government?

Thanks guys, appreciate the clarification. That's exactly what I was looking for.

Let's see if you have access to some of the local system objects... what do you get when you run the following with no reference to the Master database?

[font="Courier New"]SELECT...

David Jackson (5/22/2008)

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Using your test data, what would you expect this to return?

DECLARE @rebuildMe varchar(2000), @iteration int

SET @rebuildMe = ''

SELECT @rebuildMe = @rebuildMe + cast(n as varchar(10)) + ' '...

Hugo Kornelis (5/23/2008)

Addendum 1: A relational purist would even consider the (usual) result of this technique to be a bug. After all, relational databases are supposed to execute queries such...