paul.knibbs (5/10/2016)

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roger.plowman (5/10/2016)

And when you retire and look back on your career, your victories will be yours, your failures will be yours, and no one else will ever know what...

I got bitten by the computer bug when I was 16 and aside from a few odd jobs to get me through college my career has been spent as a...

When I run that select statement in SQL Server 2008 (10.0.5538) I get the error:

SELECT TRY_CONVERT(NVARCHAR(1), 234523)

Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1

'NVARCHAR' is not a recognized built-in function...

Personally, I use three triggers on *almost every single table*--BUT 😀

I only use them to create an audit log of insertions, deletions, updates and updates where I have to save...

Ah, naming. Be it tables/columns/indexes/et al or variables/subs/functions/etc. there's no subject in the programming world that generates quite so much controversy.

I think it's because it's so intensely personal. We've got...

I'm older and settled, so no, I can't imagine any job I'd move for. I own a house, done a lot of custom remodeling to it (converted one room to...

Preaching to the choir here. 😀

My first programming was done on a 1962 vintage IBM 1130. In Fortran. On punch cards. (laughing)

Yeah, you learn minimalism really fast when you have...

djackson 22568 (3/15/2016)

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roger.plowman (3/15/2016)

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djackson 22568 (3/14/2016)

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umailedit (3/14/2016)

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Is anyone here worried about windows 10 spying on you? It sends stuff to microsoft even after you turn off all the spy...

djackson 22568 (3/14/2016)

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umailedit (3/14/2016)

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Is anyone here worried about windows 10 spying on you? It sends stuff to microsoft even after you turn off all the spy options.

I use my...

ZZartin (3/11/2016)

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The problem with place holders like that is that you are using the same field for multiple purposes. TBD for example is not an addess it's a process...

rstone (3/10/2016)

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In the logical design, the business logic might require handling missing data and reasons for missing data. Using tokens -2, -1 , 0, etc. is one way of handling...

One final comment on this subject, and the reason I originally mentioned TBD, UNK, and N/A in the first place, is that null tells you ONE thing (data is missing)....

ScottPletcher (3/1/2016)

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roger.plowman (3/1/2016)

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patrickmcginnis59 10839 (2/29/2016)

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If you need to know why a value is missing, you're...

ZZartin (3/1/2016)

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roger.plowman (3/1/2016)

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patrickmcginnis59 10839 (2/29/2016)

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If you need to know why a value is missing, you're...

patrickmcginnis59 10839 (2/29/2016)

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If you need to know why a value is missing, you're going to...