Actually, in most (if not all) cases, the passage of a single exam results in a certification-- the "MCP" (Microsoft Certified Professional). [someone jump in and correct me if this is...

Certification is supposed to indicate that the person holding said certification has expert-level knowledge of the product they're certified in. Originally, Microsoft had certain prerequisits that were recommended before one even...

Hi Amit;

I don't _try_ to be cruel... I just want to verify that a person's actual knowledge and experience matches what they have on the resume (i.e., the whole point...

"BrainDumb" sites.... that's good. Don't know if it was intentional, though.

These threads are depressing as they highlight why the value of certification continues its downward spiral.

For those still interested, I whipped up a script to get all of the maximum values for any columns within a database that are defined as integers. (It should be...

Hi Sam;

I'm partial to David Hay's thinking on this matter. He has a good series of articles on his consulting website which address modeling notations and makes some reasoned recommendations:...

> "...They're hoeing litigation ..."

Maybe a typo, but it reads pretty humerously this way, too

TroyK

It's true that the problem can crop up on non-identity columns. I acknowledged that in a previous post on this thread.

However, I think most autoincrement solutions use the Identity...

dMacey;

I think you're right... the 6-9 billion may have stuck in my head because the team was joking about how maybe we should seed the value at -2^63 to get...

Hi Malcolm;

Your comments (and everyone else who expressed similar comments) about this not being an Identity-specific problem are absolutely correct. I focused on the Identity columns in particular because I...

And just to make things "interesting", in ADO.NET, the rowcounts returned by the various DML statements within a proc can be useful to (and for some features, are required by)...

Hi Jesse;

Although certain formulations of attempted attacks will give errors as you noted, the first three versions (Dynamic1, Dynamic2, and Dynamic3) are all vulnerable to some form of attack, but...

Hi Adam;

I'll illustrate with a simple example. The three relations T1, T2, and T3 are type-compatible, meaning their headers (attribut lists, or "column definitions" in SQL parlance) are all the...

Hi Chris;

I don't think anyone was responding to your post specifically with respect to the importance of theory and fundamentals.

Pertinent to your original comment, I tried to word the question and...

Not a bad idea at all, James

The 8th Edition just came out in late 2004. It also includes a CD version so...