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  • RE: Who Likes NULL?

    Jay Milo - Friday, July 6, 2018 12:47 PM

    "4. We agree on this: NULL should never be used for (foreign) keys....

  • RE: Who Likes NULL?

    Jay Milo - Friday, July 6, 2018 8:21 AM

    I love Nulls.  I use them extensively in both database design and stored procs/functions.

    One...

  • RE: Who Likes NULL?

    RLilj33 - Friday, July 6, 2018 8:19 AM

    If you do not like NULL, please provide a value that represents all of the...

  • RE: Who Likes NULL?

    Bleh.

    Nulls are evil. The only place I use them is for optional human-readable comments. Null means "no value". It doesn't even tell you why the value is missing....

  • RE: #SQLCareer

    Your request, by necessity, is going to cover a very large slice of life.

    The day of a lone wolf developer/dba/jack of all trades is going to be VERY...

  • RE: Where's the Schema?

    I think the real appeal of "schema-less" (actually, it should probably be called "ad-hoc schema" since nothing is schema-less) is that new "table structures" can be defined without regard to...

  • RE: Odd results from WHERE in SQL

    jdasilva - Wednesday, June 27, 2018 7:37 AM

    Well, there are a few with wildcards, but not all, so knowing the difference is...

  • RE: The Opportunistic Hacker

    First, why in the world would you EVER have data on your laptop? Much less passwords????? Second, why in the world would you EVER use WiFi, public or not? And...

  • RE: Authentication

    Meh, IMO there are still only 2, either Windows authentication (AD is still Windows authentication :)) and SQL authentication.

    😛

  • RE: Better Comments

    xsevensinzx - Saturday, June 9, 2018 7:20 AM

    roger.plowman - Friday, June 8, 2018 12:20 PM

  • RE: Better Comments

    Brain2000 - Friday, June 8, 2018 12:02 PM

    Brain2000 - Friday, June 8, 2018 11:59 AM

  • RE: Better Comments

    Brain2000 - Friday, June 8, 2018 11:07 AM

    I find comments are easier to return to months or years later if you leave...

  • RE: Better Comments

    Oooh, my favorite pet peeve!

    Comments are your friend. Now, that isn't to say you shouldn't spend every effort making the code readable, refactoring long routines into short, well-named...

  • RE: Get What You Pay For?

    Can you honestly say that large monthly cloud bills are better than the initial large expense of hardware? Hardware costs once, monthly subscription (and unexpectedly large charges) are an eternal...

  • RE: Python Comments

    The given answer is not correct. Python does not in fact have multi-line comments.

    Triple quoted text is NOT a comment, it is a string. The fact the language's inventor...

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