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  • RE: Surely It Should Just Work?

    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...

  • RE: Surely It Should Just Work?

    (which is really just an old fork of Sybase).

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

  • RE: Speed Phreaks

    Cor, GSquared, that was rather good!

  • RE: Speed Phreaks

    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...

  • RE: Mediocrity Defended

    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...

  • RE: Surely It Should Just Work?

    ...I really want to know more details about such a shocking statement as you have made. Please elaborate.

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

  • RE: Exceptional DBA Josef Richberg: fighting cancer, but still sharing

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

  • RE: A Bad Litmus Test

    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...

  • RE: A Bad Litmus Test

    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...

  • RE: A Bad Litmus Test

    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...

  • RE: A Bad Litmus Test

    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...

  • RE: A Bad Litmus Test

    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...

  • RE: Basically Available, Soft State, Eventually Consistent

    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...

  • RE: Using XML to pass and return values to procs

    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,...

  • RE: Using XML to pass and return values to procs

    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...

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