1. FORTRAN
2. BASIC
3. Pascal
4. Forth (a little for one specific project)
5. Prolog (very little, quickly became too much trouble for what was trying to be done, or I just didn't understand it well enough)
6. dBase
7. FoxPro
8. C/C++
9. VB/ASP
10. T-SQL
11. VB.NET
12. C#.NET
13. ASP.NET

Anything that I...

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Allow me to propose an alternative. One of the primary reasons Western databases store names in multiple fields (given_name, surname, title, etc.) is to allow for the generation of...

In the late 90’s, I was working for an engineering company in project management not in IT support (we didn’t have dedicated IT support at remote worksites). Without going...

The article referenced by David Poole is excellent, although probably not politically correct. 😉

In the interests of full disclosure, I am a white male in my 50's. I've worked my entire career in the USA and later Canada. I've been on...

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I work for a medium sized engineering company which only has a couple of applications that are used outside of the company. And both of those were actually developed...

Followed my usual practice of looking through the documentation, got briefly sidetracked by focusing on the two variable declarations (thinking that I needed to find a way to force the...

Thanks for the quick answer! I suspected that I would get an answer here before I had time to try to find it myself!:-D

From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174979.aspx:

SPARSE

Indicates that the column is a sparse column. The storage of sparse columns is optimized for null values. Sparse columns cannot be designated as NOT NULL. For...

palotaiarpad (7/19/2012)

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I'm not agree with the "right" answer. I can revert to any undamaged snapshot:

Step 1: delete all other snapshot

Step 2: revert to the selected

The answer would be right only...

Very interesting question. But MS should have made the answer easier to find, IMHO. Learned something = good day!:-D

Hugo Kornelis (6/20/2012)

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Ernie Schlangen (6/20/2012)

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So the real question to me is whether the 524 PB limit is imposed by SQL Server regardless of the file system in use. If...