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  • RE: Database Wars Coming for the XBOX 360

    Will DOugherty (4/1/2008)

    How can they release this only for Xbox? They've neglected the PC gamers again!

    I'm waiting for the Nintendo DS version myself, though a Wii version could be...

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    April 1, 2008 at 8:34 am

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  • RE: Training Programmers: Accessing Base Tables or Stored Procs

    Jack Corbett (3/31/2008)

    You don't mention which version of VB is being used, but if it is the latest bersion of VB.NET don't let them read anything about Linq until you...

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    March 31, 2008 at 8:17 am

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  • RE: Training Programmers: Accessing Base Tables or Stored Procs

    Jack Corbett (3/29/2008)

    Basically what I meant about performance not being as big a deal is that, particularly with parameterized queries, you are just as likely to hit a cached execution...

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    March 31, 2008 at 8:11 am

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  • RE: Training Programmers: Accessing Base Tables or Stored Procs

    Jeff Moden (3/29/2008)

    Well said. I especially like the two rules because, if you substitute the word "RBAR" for "Cursor", I use them all the time in a slightly different...

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    March 31, 2008 at 8:08 am

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  • RE: Training Programmers: Accessing Base Tables or Stored Procs

    rbarryyoung (3/29/2008)

    FWIW, I teach many programmer how to use SQL Server and I have learned that the most important thing is to impose the following two rules/commandments right from the...

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    March 31, 2008 at 8:06 am

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  • RE: Training Programmers: Accessing Base Tables or Stored Procs

    Loner (3/29/2008)

    I tried to re-train mainframe programmers (COBOL) to do SQL and VB once, the hardest thing for them was getting the concept.

    For COBOL program, the 'read' file (VSAM flat...

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    March 31, 2008 at 8:00 am

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  • RE: SQL Mail Error

    Huh. I have three servers that email me their DBCC summaries. I'm out of the office for a week and a half and all three stop. Of...

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    March 26, 2008 at 1:19 pm

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  • RE: Which Driver to use for ODBC

    Debra.Tope (3/25/2008)

    I am not a technical expert but we use the SQL Server ODBC Driver and it has worked fine for several years. If the table is to be updateable...

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    March 25, 2008 at 9:04 am

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  • RE: How similar is SQL Server to MS Access?

    annette_curtis (2/29/2008)

    That's exactly my issue how do I pass parameters to SQL Server that are currently referenced in forms. A bit of code snippet would be helpful for me. I...

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    March 25, 2008 at 8:52 am

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  • RE: SSMS Tricks

    I have one simple 'want' for SSMS: the ability to make filtered object lists persistent. Admittedly I've only done one production system in 2005, and that is taken off-line...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

    February 12, 2008 at 11:41 am

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  • RE: The Mistake

    Michael Valentine Jones (1/30/2008)

    Microsoft is pretty quick to drop support on prior versions.

    Not every vendor does that:

    http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/openvms_supportchart.html

    OpenVMS VAX version 5.5-2 released in Nov 1991

    Ending date for Prior Version Support-Sustaining Engineering:

    At...

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    January 30, 2008 at 1:54 pm

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  • RE: The Mistake

    2008 has two features that I'm interested in: the breakdown of date/time data types, and the spatial data fields. The former is useful in many applications, the latter benefits...

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    January 29, 2008 at 3:38 pm

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  • RE: Tell Me What You Need

    Because of this problem we're instituting strict project management controls. Everything will be spec'd out, and if a request for change comes in after everyone signs off and development...

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    January 28, 2008 at 8:43 am

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  • RE: A Lack of Data Quality

    I really don't understand how this could have gone on for as long as it did. You've got the budgeting process, the performance review process, HR sending out insurance...

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    January 25, 2008 at 11:19 am

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  • RE: The End of Estimation

    For us, virtualization looks like it has some good advantages. The thing that we need the most is to recover space in our racks! Our server room is...

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    January 24, 2008 at 9:12 am

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