Great points. One missed though. I prefer casual attire simply because I'm a cheap SOB. For me to have a formal wardrobe, I'd have to spend a...

It was Scotty talking into the mouse of Mac while trying to get transparent aluminum in our times. My first thought was, why not regular aluminum?

The Holodeck? And...

As a followup, it would be great if something like this worked...

SELECT TEST.a, t1.c, t1.idx

FROM TEST, dbo.f_StringToTable_2K_With_Index( TEST.s, '|' ) AS T1

It doesn't, I know.

I'm trying to avoid...

Along a similar vein I have an issue that I'm trying to figure out. I have a fairly simple table...

create table TEST (

a int identity ( 1,1 ),

s varchar(2000)...

I think you put far too much trust in there...

jcrawf02 (10/2/2008)

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Maybe instead of the escrow being to the press, there is a third party (more government, I know) that administers these issues and releases findings after a timeframe in...

The newspapers want to be "First with the story". It really doesn't matter to them if they're accurate or not, just first.

Prime example #1. Two decades ago, a...

(Apologies to the Captain Morgan Ad staff.)

Don't we all have a little Eric in us? 😛

It's probably just me, but I can see some similarities. I...

Isn't Active/Active clustering not available in Windows2003 ? (Not sure about 2008).

Also, I seem to recall db mirroring won't help, as the mirror db is "in recovery" and inaccessible until...

You can feel confident with partitioned tables. We've been using them for about 1 year (since we upgraded to 2005). Granted, our tables aren't necessarily that big, about...

jpowers (7/18/2008)

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Carla Wilson (7/18/2008)

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I learned a really good technique for persistent people who won't take a hint, called "broken record"

the best is to keep your own temper in control...

After a couple of meetings where I explained that some proposed solutions were lacking in their full consideration of variables, I was branded a malcontent. A short time later,...

Covering other responsibilities: What is a "normal" work week in IT? My company states that our official work day is 7.5 hours. I average 9 hours...

All very good points. When I was a consultant, I was constantly interviewing. I hate interviewing. Now, I'm a fulltime employee. I occasionally go out on...

Syntactically correct, but it doesn't produce meaningful results. :hehe:I agree with the previous posts, it compiles and executes, but what is it trying to provide?