I have been through several SOX audits and have never heard of that. I would have have said stick it, see the job description says "and other duties as...

From what I know of him I'd have to say I would be honored to even be a pimple on Steven Biko metaphorically of course.

Scott I definitely agree that it's the coder's responsibility. I managed a group of 8-12 programmers for a few years and we used agile practices but we included robust...

I laugh and laugh. Agile often means (to the managers in charge) get it done and skip whatever you think you can. That may not be the book...

Steve,

I'm surprised no one mentioned algile development practices. It seems like agile is another word for minimal testing. That's fine when the consequences of your code are small...

Wow that's a very self limiting belief that personality cannot be taught. You bet it can, I would just say it's generally harder to change personality than it is...

I wanted desperately to pick # 2 but I couldn't figure out how to add that index before the ). YES!

I liked the question.

Glad you all enjoyed the question. I enjoyed the 'whininess' and 'pendaticness' of some of the responses. It's all good.

At least I got a point today!

John

I believe the house in the picture is actually falling apart and is taking millions to keep going. I believe it was a Frank Lloyd Wright home. Aesthically...

Where did you hear that rumor? And by .Net do you mean ASP.Net or ... just Silverlight or ....?

No nothing like that. I agree on the hate part. I was planning to basically ignore most of it's 'recommendations' and review the couple that might make sense,...

It fails for me (unless I retyped it wrong)

create table #Money

(ID INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,

Date DATETIME

AMOUNT INT,)

SET IDENTITY_INSERT #Money ON

INSERT INTO #Money(ID, Date, Amount)

SELECT '1', ' 2/10/2010 ', '12'...

That does what I'm looking for.

I wonder how the performance is on something like that?

Thank you

I tested this. It doesn't seem to work correctly everytime. But I had never thought of using distinct in a having clause, so nice.

Steve -

I hope the Ironman Triathlon goal is really just about getting in shape and then staying that way as long as you can. I have done several...