Unknown... that's how I feel sometimes when trying to figure out my wife.

SELECT Response FROM dbo.Husband

WHERE Question = 'Honey, do I look fat in this?"

AND ...

Great addition, Steve. Love the humor.

So, if you ask a question of someone with a personality of null, do you get back a blank stare? Or, what?

We have a weekly staff meeting where we discuss our projects. That is the perfect time to also state what you've accomplished or whom you've served since the last meeting.

It's...

We are a mixed 2000, 2005 shop. We will be installing 2008 this year on one server due to a vendor. Vendor requirements is what usually moves us ahead or...

This doesn't work on 2000 but it does on 2005.

Baseball is back! :w00t:

Wow! Its' deja vu all over again. :crazy:

Baseball is back... yeah!! :w00t:

We have very little downtime.

Pruning is something that occurs once a year. On our system i, I can use a command to tell the last time an object was used....

The sparse column itself requires no space for storage if it contains a null value. However, additional storage space is required to store non-null values in the sparse column. That's...

Data without context is useless. Software helps to put data into context but humans have to study the data to make sense from it.

Danger comes from acting on data without...

Thanks Hugo for the explanation. I learn so much from this forum. It does seem to be a pretty odd way to handle time. Does this change in SQL...

So, is this about expectations of clients or about what work is appropriate for a pay grade?

Our industry is notorious for mismatched expectations. Whether it's with a vendor, a client,...

Points schmointz... who cares?

The takeaway is that SQL Server rounds time and don't use BETWEEN with a date range. But, this seems such a strange way to do this. What...

A leader ought to be someone who knows when to take risks and when not to. Risks have their time and place. It seems to me that knowing that is...

Hi Steve,

No. you can never reconcile your concern for the environment for your "need" to drive a Porsche. Me, I don't give a hoot about the environment so my driving...

Steve,

the new office looks really nice. I applaud the artistic aspect. For me, however, I would need a private space to run to to get work done. Having an open...