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  • RE: If You Ain't Cheatin'

    timothyawiseman (9/13/2008)

    That is a common issue we ran into when my company was hiring more people to work on SQL recently. Many of the people claiming to be senior...

  • RE: Happy Birthday

    Thom (9/12/2008)


    Happy Birthday Steve, mine is the 13th...

    When asked this same question by my wife and kids I responded that a remote helicopter would be nice... a small one...

  • RE: Happy Birthday

    Charles Kincaid (9/12/2008)


    Ralph Hightower (9/12/2008)


    Happy Birthday Steve.

    Umm, what would I want for my birthday?

    I would like a fully functional PDP-11, preferably a PDP-11/45 or a PDP-11/70; one of the first...

  • RE: Happy Birthday

    Pre-HDB, Steve! (and everyone else who has one coming up, which is everybody if you stretch the time frame to the next 364 days.) 😀

    I have a Nintendo DS Lite...

  • RE: If You Ain't Cheatin'

    jcrawf02 (9/11/2008)


    ... I don't know what I'm doing either, but I'm doing too much of it . . .

    "All I want is an honest week's pay for an honest day's...

  • RE: DTS problem: I'm losing a row on import

    Well, turns out I was mistaken. My solution, padding out the final filler field so that the header record length matched the detail record length, doesn't work. One...

  • RE: Patindex

    Manie, good article! Myself, I don't think that I've ever used patindex, but I use the other string functions heavily. It's amazing how many people don't do string...

  • RE: Patindex

    vibhasjog (9/11/2008)


    i have a job on my server which takes data from linked server which generally takes 10-15 mins but

    from past few days it takes 1 hour to complete...

  • RE: Soft Skills

    majorbloodnock (9/11/2008)


    ... Three conclusions can be drawn from this story:

    1. Anyone who sh*ts on you is not necessarily your enemy.

    2. Anyone who gets you out of the sh*t is not...

  • RE: When Is Work, Work?

    Steve Jones - Editor (9/10/2008)


    ... It's also a young person's game. Once you have a family, not sure you can make those trade offs and feel good about it.

    Definitely! ...

  • RE: Soft Skills

    nunYoBidnez (9/10/2008)


    majorbloodnock (9/10/2008) Semper in excretia, sumus solum profundum variat


    😉

    We are always in the manure; only the depth varies

    Now what kind of soft skill is that?:P

    That's a...

  • RE: No Non-Competes

    It's a tricky thing, trying to protect secrets. There are also potential public domain and public disclosure issues. I've been previously told that, working for government, anything you...

  • RE: Soft Skills

    Robert Heinlein once wrote that a sure sign of the decline of a society is a loss of manners. I think we started seeing that a long time ago.

  • RE: No Non-Competes

    A year? Totally excessive.

    I did one bout of contract development for The State (Dept of Education, cool gig writing an export process transferring data to the No Child Left...

  • RE: Trying to catch the user of a deleted SQL account

    It did, unfortunately it's a common application. It's ESRI GIS: our GIS techs have Windows-authenticated accounts, the people doing map querying are using SQL authentication. So I need...

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