It is no surprise to me that this is the case in the IT business. It is this way in every other business, and it's time for the IT world...

In some cases, the query will return all the rows. Excel just does not handle nulls correctly. This is a bad question.

Naw, that would make insurance companies illegal. When I sit down to the blackjack table, I expect to pay about 100 bucks (at a $5 table) for every hour or...

If you've ever worked with trying to cluster SQL Server, it's obvious why they didn't do it that way. It doesn't work.

There's no contradiction. I don't respond to form letters. If the person has something general to say, rather than something specific about me, my profile, or at least my photo,...

No, it's not wrong to hire someone else to do work for you. That is, as you stated, the basis of the service economy. However, it is very wrong to...

I was a rally racer in Colorado for a few years, driving a Subaru, but I have always like the standard production sports cars. My current baby is a classic...

Dude, that's like a plumber saying all the pipes in the world are bad. Obviously you had a problem, or you wouldn't have been called. You were the repairman, so...

I have a Mac application that serves as a SQL Query Analyser. I made this for the odd Mac user at my old company. Trouble is, all the code for...

Temp tables will suffer from the same performance problems as cursors. Temp tables increase concurrency problems. In older versions of SQL Server, the use of temp tables causes horrible problems...

Use the Enterprise Manager to fix this problem, in the "Security->Logins" tab for the server. As a general rule, your users should not have "sysadmin" rights, unless they really are...