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  • RE: Guest Editorial: Improving Northwind

    The more that I think about it, the more like GSquared's idea of scripting additions to the database. Add what you need when you need it. Some of...

  • RE: Guest Editorial: Improving Northwind

    I think that there is plenty of room in NorthWind for both simple and complex tables. A well designed database should include simple tables as well as complex relationships,...

  • RE: Up Your Value

    James Stover (3/5/2009)


    As a side, am I alone in my cynicism of corporate work and the "performance review"? Surely there must be others?? Maybe I need therapy 🙂

    No, James, you...

  • RE: Up Your Value

    mhaskins (3/5/2009)


    I was told in my review that my accomplishments were what any "average" programmer would do.

    Mia,

    Minimizing an employee's value by calling it 'average' is a nasty little tactic that...

  • RE: Identity puzzle

    Chad - got it. Thanks!

  • RE: Identity puzzle

    Okay, I'm lost. If RESEED sets the value back to zero and this table was RESEEDed right before both queries, then why wouldn't both queries return zero?

  • RE: Chargeback

    Wow! You hit a major hot button with me!!

    I've worked in small, medium and exceptionally large organizations; seen allocation of IT resources done in several different way; and I...

  • RE: Conservative or Risky?

    Philosophically speaking, I would like to work for a risk taker. In fact, I always end up working for risk-averse leaders. I'm guessing that my shrink would have...

  • RE: Global Warming and Business Intelligence

    Chris (2/12/2009)


    Among the specialists, there is no debate. Climatologists from all over the world agree that global warming is real, and that it's threatening our food chain and water supply....

  • RE: Global Warming and Business Intelligence

    -random thoughts-

    If Al Gore invented the internet, then it stands to reason that he invented Global Warming, as well.

    Being carbon-concious is sort of like morality, you don't have to be...

  • RE: Guest editorial: Reasons to be Cheerful

    No doubt that Microsoft does a good job with SQL Server as a mature platform, but as an old geezer, I recall the year following the release of SQL Server...

  • RE: Secure Cell Phones

    samkaplan (1/22/2009)


    C'mon, Steve. Do you really think NSA wants you to have a cellphone that can't be scanned or eavesdropped on? 🙂

    Sam,

    Do you really believe that the...

  • RE: Secure Cell Phones

    FWIW: There are several brands of encryption "sleds" that can be added to the Blackberry. They add a little less than half an inch to the depth of the...

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