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  • RE: Have You Designed a Database from Scratch?

    I've lost track of the number of database applications that I've built from scratch over the last 30 years. One thing is true though, I never got them completely...

  • RE: Have You Designed a Database from Scratch?

    kerry_hood (6/24/2016)


    A bit scary for our future databases.

    Way back when I was in school (still in the days of green bar line printers) subjects like database theory, set theory, and...

  • RE: Using APPLY to make your queries DRYer

    g.britton (6/10/2016)


    In the spirit of DRY, I feel I should point out that this variant repeats references

    Yes, you are correct that column references are repeated. I feel that those...

  • RE: Using APPLY to make your queries DRYer

    The use of APPLY is interesting and I did learn a couple of things, but in my opinion the CTE approach exemplified earlier is cleaner and easier to read especially...

  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    Lynn Pettis (6/6/2016)


    I don't agree with teaching a crutch.

    It's not teaching the crutch, but teaching that the crutch is NOT NECESSARY.

  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    Toreador (6/6/2016)


    Aaron N. Cutshall (6/6/2016)


    However, I do understand the intent of the QotD however it was presented.

    What was that intent, to encourage sloppy coding?

    Yes, it's a lazy approach that some...

  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    Lynn Pettis (6/6/2016)


    Actually, if you add a statement using a CTE after a statement that is not properly terminated, go back and properly terminate it. Simple.

    That's what I do...

  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    Terje Hermanseter (6/3/2016)


    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...

  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    paul s-306273 (6/3/2016)


    From my old days of Oracle, I seem to remember it was compulsory in SQL*Plus;

    We've been told for some time (since 2005 I think) that semicolons were going...

  • RE: SQL Server on Linux

    Recce70 (3/15/2016)


    As much as I look forwards to SQL Server being on Linix, I expect in 2017 forums covering aspects of the LAMP stack will be clogged up with posts...

  • RE: SQL Server on Linux

    djackson 22568 (3/15/2016)


    Touch screen OS on a server, yeah, we all need that.

    😛

  • RE: SQL Server on Linux

    I also wonder how the technical hurdles would be accomplished as over the years SQL Server as been so tightly integrated with Windows that many of the services for SQL...

  • RE: A Good Use for Hadoop

    David Grover (2/25/2016)


    There's an assumption that "dumping it into Hadoop" is the equivalent of "throwing junk mail on the pile for later" or "copying the contents of my desktop to...

  • RE: A Good Use for Hadoop

    I know that most of the "big data" pundits point to this as an example of just how great Hadoop is at being able quickly to store tons of data...

  • RE: Rulebreaking Developers

    Something that I've seen way too often: When something goes really well, management takes all of the credit and glory at most saying that it was a "team effort" yet...

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