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  • RE: Don't Criticize Code

    Hi Phil

    Nice editorial, sort of follows on from your piece "Never offend a captive audience"

    Personally I am happy to receive the criticism.

    Anyone interested in criticising my code - please...

  • RE: Never offend a captive audience

    david.howell (11/6/2011)


    ... It's still a great olde insult!

    Great indeed.

    One only has to hear its use by Billy Connolly to appreciate its nuances.

  • RE: Never offend a captive audience

    Better Shakespeare than Chaucer, I suppose...

    Shakespeare seems particularly fond of a little cuckoldry to push the plot along, though crediting him with invention of the term "Strumpet" is perhaps taking...

  • RE: The HR Sorecard

    Bicker Bicker...:-P

    Another interesting perspective just crossed my desk from a different source. Take a look here:

    http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/231602467

    Not all people cut IT when the going gets tricky...

  • RE: The HR Sorecard

    djackson 22568 (10/25/2011)


    I think it would be helpful to have people throw out ideas of what kind of data would be useful. What I come up with is likely going...

  • RE: Does It Help

    Laptop sits beside 22 inch wide screen connected to the dock. Dock sits on a desktop, hooked up to another 22 incher. Control from one mouse and keyboard of 2...

  • RE: What’s In Your (Junk) Drawers?

    Stephanie J Brown (9/29/2011)


    There's therapy for this, right?

    You're probably right. But what hope is there for code magpies when there are such enablers as 1TB external hard drives?:ermm:

    CP

  • RE: What’s In Your (Junk) Drawers?

    Nicole Bowman (9/29/2011)


    Hi everyone, my name is Nicole and I am a code magpie. There, I have admitted I have a problem but I am sure that the code will...

  • RE: A Walkabout

    tmagney (9/14/2011)


    Coincidentally, a friend of mine posted this article last week titled "Why a Travel Break Can Be the Best Career Move You’ll Ever Make":

    http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/11-09/how-a-career-break-will-shape-your-future-in-the-workforce.html

    Excellent article.

    I left after...

  • RE: A Walkabout

    Given the choice between recruiting a person with experience traveling the world for a year and one without, all other things being equal, there's no contest. The former is likely...

  • RE: system stored procecures

    Just as a slight off-topic post, you have all noted I hope that there is a difference in behaviour between stored procedures named sp_blah and those named, say, usp_blah?

    🙂

  • RE: system stored procecures

    The results could depend on the existence of database test2...

  • RE: The Business

    SQLMitch (3/16/2011)


    We have found that the farther IT is from "The Business", the easier it is to be looked at as an expense, and therefore, regarded as such. It's...

  • RE: How to export dataset into Excel when row limit exceeds 65535

    Phil Parkin (3/10/2011)


    Brings to mind a whole batch of accountants doing multi-tab analyses very very slowly and knowing that there must be a better way...

    Oh but they do (or at...

  • RE: SLA Contracts

    We have a reasonably well established structure relating to DR, including data loss.

    DR planning has been conducted, including the sequence of actions from the disaster, through declaration of disaster, requirement...

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