A bit of fun.

Question:

Since I assume the computer your SQL Server is on has a network card, why not just order by newid()?

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Go little Turtle, go!

Here's a link for those who don't know what I am on about 🙂

Curse you Precedence!

always the one that I forget about, ah well 🙂

Yes it does 🙂

and if it weren't for all those GO's in the code...

L' Eomot Inversé (12/11/2012)

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The general idea of null is that it means "it is not known what this value is"; if I replace some characters in a sting with an...

It occurs to me that we should not be confusing STUFF with arithmetic (string concat is a form of additive string arithmetic) with regards to the replaceWith argument.

yes, anything +...

To be fair to the ISP's out there, we aren't talking a few connections here, we're talking many tens or hundreds of thousands if not millions (for the bigger providers)...

Sounds very interesting for a self contained database, I have many business systems where I would find this valuable for DR.

Just wondering how this works if I need to join...

I wouldn't use ATM's as an example as I think you will find that in this day and age, all ATM transactions are live (both debit and credit cards).

You need...

I'm not amazed in the least...

I will often cite Jeff's articles to our developers and also to people I know outside of work.

He is one of those people whose name...

This article might be interesting: note the reply from microsoft at the bottom

Replace of char(0) does not work in DB with Windows collation

I know it isn't exactly the same issue,...

O' and sleep.

Fatigue is also a major source of general eye strain.

I have found this to be true for myself as when I have a run of late nights (for...

One concept that has floated around for many years (and I find it works fairly well) is for those with more than 1 monitor, ensure that they are at different...

1) Nope, although growing up on a dairy farm sometimes felt like one 😛

2) Yes.

I think there are enough core concepts that you could make one:

The ANSI Standard...

Exactly right, and that is the problem. Sales people say "Cloud" as some kind of cureall.

"I need to make coffee. ...