Sure thing Polly 🙂 Management always allows time for

I like your thinking if it were a programmers world.

Looks like a good book.

I always have problems with titles that start with "Beginning" and end with a version #. Invariably the bulk of the content relates equally as well...

I would need to differentiate between "home grown" generators and "off the shelf" generators. Home grown addresses your specific needs and has a much narrower focus, whereas off the shelf...

I don't think any thing went wrong. The author presented an idea they felt strongly about, the community responded, yes Bill, I think a little harshly, but the end result...

Great Article.

Each person must assess their own needs and responses when considering "cookie cutter" numbers. As much as we would like to believe, we are not a one size fits...

The programmer "intended" it to work the way the programmer thought they were programming it to work. 😀 [this said in the universal sense]

mohd.nizamuddin (1/17/2010)

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Very nice and informative article...

This is what we do in real life as well (Use of SELECT *). Even though we hear from everybody that to avoid SELECT *...

Another issue with select * is that if you have identity keys and the tables are independently generated (as in deve and staging) and an identical data entry has separate...

Rodney, great article.

Ross, great answer, ... so I will just say "What he said".

I have to agree with Jan.

Any techinical discussion of an "item", will always be at odds with the worldy perception of the item. That is not wrong just the way...

Great article Andy. Those type of journeys can be invigorating. The flip side is the person who constantly volunteers and puts themselves "out there" only to crash and burn and...

We use "cross joins", actually no join at all, when we are creating our dimensions in our data warehouse.

I hope the less than great authors are informative too! 🙂

"He talks about how much digital information he's captured, tells us never to delete anything" - depression era mentallity meets the electronic age. In this paradigm our children and grand...

Ok, I'll bite, not even Google knows what "NichLactemyer" is.

Happy Good Friday.