Tim Brooks (8/31/2010)

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I've seen this construct used many times, and typically it is a little poor on performance. An index on First and / or Last Name will usually be...

No not really, it's a kind of a trick question... when you use the = operator and compare to null, the result...

peratchiselvi.m (3/23/2010)

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In the answer for this question, "The expression "MyID = NULL" evaluates to Unknown rather than any true or false condition."

then y it is false... instead of unknown. can...

arms.dan (10/30/2009)

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Your off-hand comment about naming the field "Gender" rather than "Sex" piqued my curiosity. Why? As I understand the words, sex means biological differences: chromosomes and sexual organs. Gender...

That's what...

I think I was connected to a wrong version of SQL Server. It was saying syntax error near '('...

You could easily give the PK a name... the point is that...

I am also a rabid backgammon player. I like games where you can improve over time using nothing but your wits - I've read 3 or 4 books on backgammon...

"specialisation is for insects"

I get bored if I stick to one thing for too long. I keep my hobbies varied and try to work on different types of projects when...

Bummer... you should have asked me 🙂

I couldn't go because my boss didn't want to pay for it. I agree with you... it is valuable to a company to get...

http://smoothjazzy.blogspot.com/2007/03/open-letter-to-it-recruiters.html

Check the comments... hehehe

Ah ok... it just seems like it's been a long time. I'll wait for the new version

Naw, I think in SQL just fine. Steve mentioned business rules and that is another good thing to comment, but that's part of documentation, not explanation of the code. It's...

I don't either. Comments are only for the purpose of documentation, not explanation. If someone is reading the code and they can't tell from the code what it's supposed to...

Very true. That supports a lot of what I've been saying in the C#/C++ wars. If you challenge yourself to learn C#, and then you still think it's crap, then...

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I knew I wasn't the only one....

But uh... it doesn't work?