Sorry, I was testing this and should have included. I had a hiredate of pre 2016 already in there. Should have shown the initial data.

Corrected the question, awarding back points.

Jeff Moden (9/14/2016)

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Night? Free brainstorming for the company and it's at night?

I've heard of "Down Tools" or "Down Weeks" before...

Brandie Tarvin (9/15/2016)

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Did anyone else get two copies of a newsletter yesterday?

I received the Stairway to U-SQL Level 8 at 3:59 p.m. and 6:24 p.m. (Eastern time, U.S.) yesterday. Didn't...

As noted, you can submit online.

Or email it to articles@ with this domain.

Thanks, we'll get to it as soon as we can.

drew.allen (9/13/2016)

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I recently submitted my first article for SSC. I got some great feedback on my rough drafts. Thanks Chris, Graham, and Wayne. I'm not sure what...

Deprecated means this works, but no work is being done on the feature (outside of security/bug fixes) and this will be removed from the product at some point.

In terms...

In terms of a real situation, I want a division by zero to return an error so I can trap for that and handle it. There's no reason to have...

peter.row (9/13/2016)

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Coming predominantly from a software dev' side where we obviously do use a source control system.

We don't use an ORM and so what we do for DB stuff is...

Fundamental choice made a long time ago. Could have supported...

xsevensinzx (9/12/2016)

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Chiefly Confused (9/12/2016)

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Having the schema's and sprocs in a VCS helps immeasurably when you are trying to figure out what, where, why a change was made. Even just...

Wasn't sure about the auto draft. I had a meeting starting when the draft ran, so I missed it, but apparently it wasn't too bad. Don't know a bunch of...

That would be good. Anything that showcases how to use this. We're lacking some practical articles on this topic.

Thanks, everyone. Had a great time. A few days in Edinburgh, a day in Stirling, lost a day with illness, but rented a car and drove to Fort William to...

Well, I'm back and things seem to still be working.

SAL Sat Cambridge was fun, and good to see a few people from the Thread there. Sorry you weren't there, Rodney.