Steve Jones - Editor (4/28/2010)

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Jim,

I think you're confused. The patches are built upon other changes, and contain the previous CUs. They're just not overly tested.

CU5 for SS2K8 SP1 isn't built...

Based on the "Only install this if you have...

I disagree with regular service packs with the following justifications:

Service Packs should be rolled up and tested when the accumulated changes are sufficient to warrant it not just to...

6. Import the incorrect date as a clearly invalid date (1/1/1200 or 1/1/9999 or whatever) and add the entered date to a note column in the record.

This is basically...

In this respect it is not necessarily pain and/or punishment we want...

I am reminded of a (possibly apocryphal) quote from Henry Ford: "If I had asked people what they wanted they would have said a faster horse."

I am continually surprised at...

I do a lot of process automation in my company--I look at what people are doing by hand, and find ways to automate what they do. I also get...

Here's the thing that gets me:

Why is everyone using CASE WHEN (number % 5)=0 And (number % 3)=0, instead of CASE WHEN (number %15) = 0?

I want to see that...

I agree, and I don't use prefixes for database objects. What I was suggesting was...

I think this...

I think this was pointed at with a link, but I wanted to make it explicit.

Hungarian Notation was meant to be Functional, Not Descriptive.

"DECLARE intPoints as integer" is pointless. ...

In order to alleviate (but not eliminate) the problem of choosing a delimiter, the final replace could replace Space+delimiter instead of just the delimiter. So as in the examples(using...

RBarryYoung (8/5/2008)

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Antares686 (8/5/2008)

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But my first impression was the first example for the contact numbers. I noticed you made 4 passes over the data instead of just the one. And even...

I'm away from my old data structures book, but is there a requirement that b-trees be balanced. I remember balancing them, but I don't remember that...

The point of the data about birthdate and Zip code isn't that knowing those allows someone to figure out who you are, it's that those data are adequate to operate...