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  • RE: The Value of Experience

    From my perspective I'd say understanding the context of the data you're manipulating allows you to see the bigger picture. However I'm a bit of a mongrel.

    Choosing the right tool...

  • RE: Effective Dating Series Part I - The Problem

    Quite - as the DBA you should be revoking all privileges on all tables and only allowing pre designed updates via stored procedures - that's the only way you can...

  • RE: Effective Dating Series Part I - The Problem

    jcrawf02 (10/1/2009)


    Not sure I completely follow what Nadrek is saying, but had a thought. (who knew?)

    How in a global enterprise would you account for sales beginning/ending across time zones? Multiple...

  • RE: Effective Dating Series Part I - The Problem

    Just do it in your business logic - when you want to add a product to a promotion ensure the application has to call a stored procedure - in that...

  • RE: Effective Dating Series Part I - The Problem

    As to the person wondering about discount rates, there are pros and cons to that. The pro, as mentioned, is not maintaining a separate list of hard prices. ...

  • RE: Effective Dating Series Part I - The Problem

    jcrawf02 (10/1/2009)


    Mod -1, how is this article supposed to help me get a date?!

    Read the title - "Part 1 - The Problem". It's a demonstration - you read the article...

  • RE: Effective Dating Series Part I - The Problem

    Why not just have a mathematical price modifier attached to the promotions table rather than a promotion price - that way you can apply a promotion to a group of...

  • RE: Mistake or #Fail

    It is true - I just set up a MOSS server without knowing what I was doing, I still don't really understand conceptually what is happening but as soon as...

  • RE: Moving Day

    Sorry Steve,

    Much as I'd like to vote for it I appear to be lost in Microsoft Passport - I can't get them to send me a new password because my...

  • RE: Moving Day

    I'm with Steve,

    That would be an extremely useful function....

  • RE: A Good Word for ODBC

    Phil Factor (9/11/2009)


    I realise that this is off-topic, but you'd be surprised how many people are using Excel databases. An old friend of mine is a city of London financial...

  • RE: A Good Word for ODBC

    RTF, I was merely saying that if you run any given query on SQL versus Access then SQL will be faster, particularly bearing in mind Bob's tables are on the...

  • RE: A Good Word for ODBC

    Depends what you're trying to achieve Bob.

    A pass through query will just literally pass the query string to the DB, execute it, then return the results. Lord knows what Access...

  • RE: A Good Word for ODBC

    Thanks Phil, there I was thinking I was a decrepit old dinosaur sticking with my completely functional ODBC connections and eschewing Linq and suchlike on the basis that I could...

  • RE: Spreadsheets are BAD....

    Very true Dave, and this was the crux of my argument.

    The problem is quite complex, as it has to account for differing levels of technical maturity around our global concerns,...

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