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Steve Jones - Editor (8/26/2008)
...It doesn't take any more time to write good code if you know how.
Too bad that learning how to write good code takes so long. ...
August 27, 2008 at 9:23 am
rbarryyoung (8/7/2008)
Festeron (8/7/2008)
There are problems with the question, though.Why is @b-2 declared and never used?
Where is @b-17? Answer B cannot be correct
Yikes! You are right,...
August 7, 2008 at 11:39 am
With regards to teaching someone to fish...we recently started have weekly peer reviews of some aspect of our work. I work in a development department with a total of...
August 6, 2008 at 9:45 am
I do ask that you understand we try not to rewrite articles for authors. We work with them, do some spell checking and editing, but our intention is to make...
July 8, 2008 at 9:47 am
JohnG (7/2/2008)
Most of us understand the intention and overlook some spelling errors (e.g.,...
July 2, 2008 at 10:31 am
XP_FileExist
The usage is:
EXEC xp_fileexist <filename> [, <file_exists INT> OUTPUT]
If executed without providing an output variable, it will display 3 columns indicating whether the table passed exists, whether it is a...
May 9, 2008 at 9:26 am
Since I have never tried this one, I had to go searching for some information. What I found is, apparently, very misleading. The following is an excerpt from...
April 11, 2008 at 10:16 am
maloneyk (4/11/2008)
What IS important is your ability to demonstrate...
April 11, 2008 at 10:00 am
AndyD (3/21/2008)
At my last work place, the Sys Admins implemented a new policy such that any workstation left unattended for 5 minutes would automatically lock, and then show the screensaver.
It...
March 21, 2008 at 9:25 am
For a little bit more information about what index statistics are and how they are used, you can try the following link:
February 20, 2008 at 9:23 am
I believe that this link:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187956.aspx
references the same BOL article as mentioned by Jeff Deluca.
January 25, 2008 at 9:42 am
Michael Ross (1/25/2008)
January 25, 2008 at 9:24 am
Call me lazy, but coming up with a nice schema like this is a lot more typing than I like to do. What kinds of XSD editing tools would...
December 19, 2007 at 9:20 am
Comments are not necessarily free. They can be costly at maintenance time. There are many occasions when the code is changed and the comments are not...especially when the...
August 28, 2007 at 9:28 am
From the reference linked listed as the explanation: ...However, if you experience difficulties creating indexes, consider increasing the value of this option from its run value
If creating some new...
July 25, 2007 at 9:18 am
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