thanks. I have some videos to check out, and I'll add Sean's the list. For now I'm going through the book and want to see where that gets me.

peterzeke (11/14/2013)

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I read the brief text describing the TED talk video on the video webpage, and paid careful attetion to the statement about 20 hours essentially equates to 45 minutes...

jay-h (11/14/2013)

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It is claimed that it takes a dog 500 tries to learn a trick ... at 5 tries /hour that works out to 100 hours. Seems about right....

No such thing, for either. On the MVP list...

Best of luck!

I have seen quite a few DVD/BluRay players in the last decade like that. I've returned some and gotten others, quality has not improved. At some point I've lived with...

Dale Turley (11/13/2013)

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Isn't this true of television manufacturers, carpet makers, stereo manufacturers, and... just about every other business?

Would you be happy with a new stereo that could only play sound...

If it's just dev, look at this article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187611%28v=sql.100%29.aspx

I'd script the permissions to set this up to a group, then add the devs to the group.

That article talks about issues after age 40 and 50, not 30.

Age discrimination is usually when you are later in your career. However it could also occur when someone doesn't...

are the indexes in use in the plan? Are statistics up to date?

Without code and an exec plan, hard to guess here.

You need some better DDL And DML here to make a care. Something like:

create table originalHeader (colname varchar(20));

insert OriginalHeader select ('AAAA'), ('BBBB '), ('CCCC');

Give us something to work with. It's...

I agree with Jeff. You want to be careful with KILL. I've had it work 99% of the time, but that 1% can be really, really annoying and a killer.

Instead,...

djackson 22568 (11/11/2013)

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I think I am the one who is having difficulty describing my point. Let me do it another way. If we take an example...

Gary Varga (11/11/2013)

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Steve, sorry but I disagree. Yes, examples should be complete including best security practices where appropriate, however, it does have an impact on effort. Security needs planning, design...

I'd still argue this is more an internal developer professionalism issue more than a business case.

We, as people that teach and help others, need to present good examples and...