THANK YOU Jeff!

I was starting to...

Documentation is like an intimate encounter:

1) Not everyone is at the same level of knowledge or expertise

2) The way you prefer it may not be the way others do

3)...

Is anyone else having problems getting to the page with the actual script/code? No matter how I try to navigate to it, everytime I get the 'Need to Register'...

Steve Jones - Editor (1/5/2009)

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Are you complaining about BOL? It's definitely lacking in places, but it's a pretty good document and I love the ability to give back feedback or...

Somone may have alrady mentioned this as I have not reaed thru all 3 pages of comments (not enough time this morning) but I feel its important to add a...

Timothy (1/5/2009)

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I'll admit I rarely write comments. About the only time I do is if the code has "gotchas": basically it does things in a way you wouldn't normally expect...

Jeffrey Williams (12/18/2008)

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So, once again I will ask the question. Given:

SELECT REPLACE('abcdefghijklmno', 'mno', 'abc');

What is the expected datatype of the output? VARCHAR - as defined in BOL.

What is...

Lynn Pettis (12/18/2008)

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You are comparing apples to oranges when comparing the action of REPLACE with UPPER. REPLACE doesn't know how big the returned string is going to be when...

Steve Jones - Editor (12/24/2008)

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The US has a few things going against it. Culturally I think we've hit a tipping point where parents are too successful and it causes lots...

Computers as well as Technology in general should help us doing things faster and/or more easily that we already know how to do without the technology. There are of...

cyplesma (12/19/2008)

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YSLGuru (12/19/2008)

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The systems in the Iron Man Movie & the latest Bond film (as well as the desktop used by the administartor character in the movie The Island from...

blandry (12/19/2008)

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(First - a correction for AndyD... Holly is NOT the female computer in Red Dwarf - that is Hilly. Holly is the actor Norman Lovett, a male...

The systems in the Iron Man Movie & the latest Bond film (as well as the desktop used by the administartor character in the movie The Island from about 3...

Jeffrey Williams (12/17/2008)

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I understand where you are seeing this as a problem. What I was trying to show you is that this is not a problem, but instead your...

ALZDBA (12/16/2008)

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it is not a bug,

it is a limit one must know about.

If you need more than 8000 bytes, you need an implicit convert to varchar(max).

,replace(cast('abcdefghicde' as varchar(max)) ,'cde' ,'xxx')...