It was a bit fiddly but then in my experience that is the case when dealing with xml, especially in SQL.

Harsh but fair IceDread, harsh but fair.

My personal regime is to insist that I must get (very) sweaty at least once a day in the working week (cycle commute, 5...

Yeah right Steve, I can see my bosses face when I ask him for funding to go to Vegas :laugh: admittedly I am UK based. I have carefully nurtured him...

Hmm, I hope it's not wrong as I interpreted the answers to be A and C

I am at least moderately heartened by the general philanthropy of the great tech businessmen, Larry Ellison I believe is also pretty good, and it is certainly something you have...

hoekma (1/9/2012)

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Ok, I have to be the first one to throw a monkey wrench into the conversation. For full disclosure, I'm not a fulltime DBA. I work in...

Ahh, you do have a grand way with words Mr Factor. I always find myself resembling the 'agree with everyone' guy from The Fast Show (I think - sorry for...

I was a bit disappointed to be docked for choosing what I thought the most official answer of 8. Some ambiguity there at least.

I think GOTO is great and like to employ it at every opportunity. How else do you sensibly structure conditional exit points?

Just kidding. I don't think I've ever felt the...

Nothing too deep, a good question for my last day at the coal face this year. Though it's not the kind of thing I ever need to do being more...

djackson

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Getting something done is important, but I do not believe Steve was looking for "just get it done". That attitude is partially responsible for the bad reputation our industry...

This puts me in mind of the classic Spolsky hiring diatribe on the theme of 'smart and gets things done'. To be honest in my experience the smart bit is...

Even I, a confirmed pedant, understood 'run at the same time' and that it was implied on the same database. I mean you could definitely do it on separate servers,...

I've always taken the view that 'bosses' don't actually need to know what I'm up to and generally might want to trust me. Thus, I don't ask to take time...

So you'd like...