Stewart "Arturius" Campbell (10/22/2015)

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Nice, easy question to end the week on, thanks, Steve.

However, the answers appear syntactically incomplete, e.g.

should this not have rather read...

I use the positive (which is problematic because a previous developer used the negative).

I prefer 'Enabled' to 'Active', but since 'Enabled' is a keyword and I consider using keywords as...

Oww, my eyes.

But other than the formatting, it was a simple, red herring question.

We just ran up against this. IT set up a new developer's box, and used the default for the SQL named instance. Which was wrong and would not...

Never touched the model before, myself. But after reading that blog, I am seriously considering adding a tally table to it whenever possible.

RLilj33 (9/2/2015)

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david.gugg (9/2/2015)

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Xavon (9/2/2015)

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Sean Lange (9/2/2015)

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I am guessing that Aaron did NOT convince Steve to use = instead of as.

I have to say that I disagree with Aaron on...

Sean Lange (9/2/2015)

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I am guessing that Aaron did NOT convince Steve to use = instead of as.

I have to say that I disagree with Aaron on this. I find...

I answered based on remembering that blog, but personally think the complete list is 13

(=, AS, or ' ') * (no delimiter, ', ", or []) + 1 for...

rmechaber (8/28/2015)

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Easy question, though I did have to think about it, as other combinations not provided as QotD options would have worked: 1, 3, 2 for example. Strip out...

In theory my company has five environments:

Dev - where we all work, anything goes, drop and recreate at the drop of a hat.

QA - once dev is 'done', it gets...

jckfla (8/11/2015)

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Xavon (8/11/2015)

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IT needs a more general version of Hofstadter's law. That is why when asked to estimate time, I generally add a 150% pad (100% for issues during...

IT needs a more general version of Hofstadter's law. That is why when asked to estimate time, I generally add a 150% pad (100% for issues during dev, 50%...

Hooray, more trick questions. Don't worry about the question itself, the title is the only important part.

I think it says something about me, that the first thing I thought was 'Why would you have Super Mario Bros. on your cluster?'...

Where I am now, we are required to wear business casual shirts and long pants; but those long pants can be jeans. Dress shoes are generally required. We...