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  • RE: Stats_date()

    Dave62 (6/10/2016)


    Thanks for the question and particularly the title. 😉

    Lol, I didn't notice the title until now :w00t:

  • RE: Stats_date()

    Nice thing to know!

  • RE: More and More Data Growth

    David.Poole (6/9/2016)


    The data growth isn't coming from OLTP.

    True. I'm glad most of the data in my company still resides in normalized relational databases, none of which exceeds a TB in...

  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    Sean Lange (6/6/2016)


    What is one more semicolon among ctes? 😀

    #MakeSemicolonsGreatAgain

  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    John Mitchell-245523 wrote (6/6/2016): I didn't think the question was tricky or pedantic. It's just pointing out that if you don't terminate the previous statement, you have to put...

  • RE: Accept Failure

    Ed Klein-385786 (6/3/2016)


    This is an example of why every developer and especially every project manager should be required to read "The Mythical Man-Month" by Fred Brooks, subtitled Essays On Software...

  • RE: ISJSON

    Since we don't have a 2016 server that I could test this on, I tried to read the documentation for clues. Found this article, https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn246937.aspx, but sadly it didn't say...

  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    I always use them and encourage others to do the same.

    I've been too sloppy. I need to be more consistent and start to use them even when I only writes...

  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    I don't understand why MS is wavering on the commitment to enforce them as they've been part of the ISO-1999 standard for a very long time.

    Too much old code will...

  • RE: @TrumpDBA!

    He-he, this account is hilarious! As an european this had me laughing so hard:

    "Besides the firewall I'm working on a comprehensive foreign key policy. Going to use AMERICAN keys instead!"...

  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    Good question. The questions don't have to be long and complex to learn something from them.

  • RE: Accept Failure

    Managers often put a lot of personal prestige into projects they sponsor. I think that's the main reason why they're so unwilling to accept failure.

  • RE: The Coffee Routine

    cad.delworth (6/1/2016)


    Just the smell of coffee makes me want to vomit (literally)

    That's the first time I've ever heard of anyone that gets sick from the smell of coffee :w00t:

    Good thing...

  • RE: More Overloads

    While I understand why a generic term as logs can have different meanings in different contexts, I really don't understand the need to come up with a new meaning for...

  • RE: Great Developers

    These days with the majority of people going to university some employers have become qualification obsessed.

    This is a major problem imo. In my country there are several employers that...

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