Speaking of tangents (sort of)...

I understand logically that NULL (as an unknown quantity) added or used in any other mathematical formula should = NULL.

But I still wish that SQL would...

Thanks Hugo, I should have mulled over that question just a few more minutes before asking it.

I must be missing something really simple here, but what happened to the last comma?

I would think that the result would have to end in a comma since what is...

For years I've been frustrated how often new servers were needed. "You have to add 2 + 2? OK, we'll need another server for that. "

So it's no...

One advantage that isn't mentioned is the "Web parts" (including dashboards). Of course they're not much use to a DBA who doesn't care as much about the front end...

I was a philosophy major and have noticed over the years that black/white thinking (a.k.a. the bifurcation fallacy) is the most common cognitive error people make. To see shades...

Thank you very much for the well-informed responses. I finally have an answer to this.

I used to be a FoxPro programmer and using the WHERE clause was needed in...

This may sound odd and a bad choice for performance, but I often select all the records into a temp table and then conditionally delete the unwanted rows. This...

Our abbreviations are beginning to overlap often. Since I like audo, I see "DAC" and I think "Digital to Analogue Converter."