In my blog post 'Using XML to pass lists as parameters in SQL Server'[/url] that compared string-splitting, I didn't include the actual REPLACE operation because I was assuming the lists...

Alex,

I've gone back to have a closer look at the article. It could be that I've misunderstood something, but I really think the first example could be improved. I reckon...

Many thanks to Alex for writing this.

I think the only confusion for me as a reader of this article was that the title didn't make clear enough whether it...

One of the best sabbaticals at a place I once worked was a colleague who took a course to qualify as a Steam Engine Driver. He was an engineer in...

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TribalAwards

... Should do the trick!

@Marlon.Seton

I've been both poacher and game-keeper in the war between the devs and the strategists (support is only one of the issues), so I can see both sides of the...

I'm baffled when people say that there are certain things that can't be done by a relational database that are easy to do in a document database. This was true...

For a good review of the ways that SmartAssembly does obfuscation, see the simple-talk article by Matteo Slaviero {smartassembly} software for code obfuscation

.NET Reflector enables you to see the source (C# IL or VB) of SQL Server CLR assemblies. You can...

@jeff

I had to re-read the editorial to make sure I wasn't arguing that it was OK to hire people who were so socially inept as to be unemployable. (although Alan...

@colin

I couldn't get that link to work. It would be a great tool to have. It is a time-consuming job to do by hand.

Xerox have found the bug which affects all compression levels. and are issuing a patch which seems to work. hundreds of thousands of devices are affected

http://realbusinessatxerox.blogs.xerox.com/2013/08/07/update-on-scanning-issue-software-patches-to-come/#.UhYrMz_px8E

It could be more than...

I love the editorials, whatever they're about. Always read 'em. Almost every day I click on a link. I even like the pictures.

I doubt if you'll ever cater for everyone...

But we also need to look very closely with what we have and determine if the tools we used yesterday are able to manage horizontally scaled data correctly and...

@rod At Work

The R programming language is a GNU open-source project designed for statistical analysis of data. It supports a huge number of extensions in user-created packages that give it...