"As to fraud, I can honestly say that I've never passed an accounting course so I'm no expert"

You do not have to be. Deliberately changing a number to another, incorrect...

The fraud isn't in the initial rounding of the details but in fudging those roundings to make the rounded details add up to the totals.

For example 100 divided by 3...

Yes, of course it is fraud. There is no defendable justification for the fudging (other than to cater for people who don't understand rounding).

Nice article from the "how to commit...

I got it wrong, though I have always maintained that binary representations are more accurate than decimal ones (which they are of course) :crying:.

Sounds to me like the real problem...

Generally speaking I am happy to allow (semi-)auto-updates on my workstations. For my dev servers I try to follow whatever the policy is on the (clients') production servers that these...

Perhaps the first counter-question to aks would be: have you ever really needed Microsoft support for a tough problem? Did they actually contribute to a solution or did they simply...

Thanks for the article, I like the idea and will keep it in my toolbox. But it will not solve the 'select *' problem because, as several people have already...

Hi Steve,

I appreciate your initiative but from a practical point of view I would much prefer a Windows device like an ePad (e.g. http://www.mobilemag.com/2010/08/11/aussies-get-pioneer-dreambook-epad-l11-windows-7-tablet-next-month/) over an iPad. This...

In my opinion a more informative comparison would be between NULL and empty string in the same field, e.g.middle name of George Washington. Empty string means "no middle name" (or...

I don't...

I disagree: setting a field to NULL does not 'leave [or make] a field empty', instead it makes (or should...

Yes, I find that a lot of the confusion goes away by not calling NULL a "value" but seeing as a state (or state indicator).

As a proof by authority, this is what Itzik Ben-Gan has to say about the EXISTS subquery:

The use of * here is perfectly safe, even though in general it's not...

OK, OK. I was going to ask a question about the default font...

I am just guessing here but...