You are entitled to use PostgreSQL for free. It is released under a BSD-style license, complying with both the Free Software Definition and the Open Source Definition. Itconforms to both...

Ouch. I suspect that Microsoft would wince at that. People have, in the past, called me an 'old fork': once.:-)

Cor, GSquared, that was rather good!

Oops! I've corrected the spelling.

With the Speed Phreak challenge, the entries that give the wrong answer are eliminated from the final results. The test harness compares the result...

Curiously, this very thing happened to me just after Larry drew this comic strip. I'd been editing an existing script in SSMS and went off to watch a DVD. When...

I rate PostgreSQL quite highly, and my friends who use it say it...

That good DBA cussedness in the face of problems: by far the best medicine. A very inspiring article

By coincidence, one of the 'Coders At Work' listed in the offending list has just been interviewed by Richard Morris for Simple-Talk. This is Simon Peyton Jones, who is is...

A good debate which I enjoyed. I suspect that we all agree that, whereas it is silly to dismiss, or prejudge, the abilities of a programmer because he is not...

Ah. I think I can see an ambiguity here. Asking the question "Can you name someone in this particular book 'coders at work', and what they're famous for?" would be...

The quote said "If the next programmer you interview can't identify at least one of the programmers interviewed in Coders at Work and tell you roughly what they're famous for...

I've got a feeling that I disagree with most of these comments if they are meant to apply to programmers rather than DBAs.

Programmers do well to study the code...

Funny you should mention that, but I know a lot of grey-muzzle database developers, brought up with ML, who are getting excited about F#, as it gives functional programmers a...

Yes, I enjoyed the article too. It has really got me thinking.

Is there an alternative to getting the 'Edge table' other than ...

[font="Courier New"]EXECUTE sp_xml_preparedocument @hdl OUTPUT, @xml

INSERT  INTO @xmlEdgeTbl

        SELECT  *

        FROM    OPENXML(@hdl,...

It is an interesting twist on a popular technique. The only point where I was a bit doubtful was to use EXECUTE sp_xml_preparedocument to get the edge table. Do...