Read that again and tell me that it doesn't sound sexist.

I think the intention was to apply this at a rather larger scale than just...

That is probably true, but if you have a billion users, you can probably only afford to have a few honeypot accounts,...

Nice little script, but what about the benefits (or lack) of them? Does the server run better or worse after this?

Apart from the NULLable thing, are there any potential gotcha's?

Well, I have said it already, but for the last time - my first post was a little bit ironic, and not intended to be taken seriously. On the other...

I think you are both missing the point, which is that the original question was seriously lacking in detail, and fell way below the level of professionalism that most of...

I guess some people have difficulty in recognising a little humour when its thrown down!

In reality I would have followed all proper procedures, and given our friend a chance to...

@jfgoude

The question didn't say anything about being retrospective!

I won't question your decision to build your own CMS back then, but if you chose to do so today, then...

For the kind of website that was described, SQL server is not going to be appropriate, because none of the CMS's that are appropriate will use it as a back-end....

To be fair, WikiPedia itself warns on almost every page that some of the information provides no sources, and therefore is liable to removal. Assuming that there _is_ a verified...

I think that the last few lines of that article highlight the big problem - Developers want to store objects, and DBA's want nice clean lists. Neither side are entirely...

I think you are missing the scenario where you have three (or more) equal partners: one company hosting the database, a second owning the data, and a third owning the...

To those who are querying the answer, why not just follow the linked resource, oh, hang on, the reference is WikiPedia!? Double Fail then, first for the irrelevant question...

K. Brian Kelley (11/9/2009)

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Or to put in a more understandable context... we say it's important to know the guys who developed jet aircraft but we don't think it's important to...

Gift, I'm not sure which side you were arguing, but your post showed what is likely to happen if you _do_ bone up on such things before an interview: you...