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I generally agree with what the editorial says, but I'm appalled by the article referenced. Anyone who thinks that C, a language in which numbers can't be distinguished from pointers...
July 26, 2019 at 11:39 pm
Definitely worth some double check investigation. SSRS has been nothing but trouble from a development perspective and thus for me my automatically response to any one asking if we...
July 26, 2019 at 11:25 pm
I'm quite fond of this XKCD from last month:
I don't know whether that link was broken before, but it certainly is now. Is that another manifestation of...
July 22, 2019 at 4:54 pm
It's terrifying to think of what could become the norm in a few years from now. Even reading the article around the A.I in the call centre was enough...
July 22, 2019 at 1:58 pm
"Then I failed out of engineering classes" sounds so familiar. Engineering calculus was/is a great weeding out class. I thank my lucky stars that particular failure led me me...
July 21, 2019 at 1:22 am
Ha! Version 4.21a was my first taste. Crikey, I feel ancient. ANSI-89 style may have been a standard back in the day, but has long been supplemented. In fact...
July 21, 2019 at 12:38 am
There's another problem, yet! The link in the first post of this thread points to the wrong bloody QOTD for me! For me, it points to https://www.sqlservercentral.com/questions/t-sql/166240 ,...
July 21, 2019 at 12:24 am
I had an annoying problem with SQLServer 2016 and 2017. The latest updates to both were failing with windows update error 0x8024000b. So I ran sfc /scannow and let it...
July 15, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Having seen what a disaster pseudo-Agile can be I agree with most of the earlier comments. I have discovered though that even when a development team and a QA team...
July 15, 2019 at 5:17 pm
Tom, If you played any part in creating Oracle packages, thank you.
David, I don't have any idea as to whether I had any influence on that or...
July 15, 2019 at 1:58 am
Heh... you and I are showing our age in this business, Lynn. Yes, they were ANSI compliant at one time... they don't usually refer to them as ANSI...
July 15, 2019 at 12:02 am
Young man (or woman), Implicit joins are evil. Always. Even in examples or practice exercises. Repent of your wicked ways.
BWAAA-HAAAA!!!!! Someone needs to tell MS that. Properly...
July 14, 2019 at 11:07 pm
Yep, there doesn't seem to be any download link...there used to be, but not anymore that I can find.
There is a download link now, but it seems to be...
July 14, 2019 at 10:31 pm
I don't have gifts to be a DBA - DBA requires more patience than I usually have.
Ummm.... "patience". Hang on... let me look that up. {insert...
July 14, 2019 at 6:41 pm
Well, I have two problems with this QOTD. Or perhaps I see two faults in the new "improved" website.
1: The select statement isn't there - it's a meaningless icon, no...
July 13, 2019 at 4:01 pm
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