A little bit of pepper doesn't hurt either. :hehe:

Nice editorial Steve. I use Chrome as my primary browser and agree with you that automatic updates are not enough of a reason to switch to IE.

One minor correction.

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cengland0 (1/5/2012)

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I work for a large corporation and not everyone has internet access. How will those browsers get automatically updated?

In fact, even for those few associates that do have...

This one even works with no number...

Here's another beauty.

Select ISNUMERIC('£,,1.,') As "String";

Still returns a 1 :crazy:

Thanks for the question.

Another answer that may have fooled a few could have been: "1 row with the sum of all the values from the 1st column of every record...

I don't see the irony. The point of writing good code...

Jack Corbett (11/17/2011)

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It's sad but I've seen code that is ripe for SQL Injection, commented it shouldn't be allowed and that if it was my decision it wouldn't be, yet...

Hugo Kornelis (11/9/2011)

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... Advance warning as a special service for those who take the time to read the discussion - the next question in this series (scheduled to go live...

SanDroid (10/21/2011)

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...I should have been more specific in my question.

Does using a "TOP 99999999" statement with an "order by" in a VIEW against an actual table with less than 99.9...

SanDroid (10/21/2011)

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Mighty (10/21/2011)

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Carlo Romagnano (10/21/2011)

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CREATE VIEW vw_clients AS

SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT Code, Name FROM Clients

ORDER BY Code

I am curious to know if the VIEW above always returns records in...

Yes, that was quite a...

All of our servers from development through production are 2008. We went from 2000 directly to 2008 skipping 2005. We plan on skipping 2008 R2 and have not made a...

One of the basics I've seen lacking in some data professionals is the use of stored procedures. I'm amazed by the number of developers I've come across, who have been...

Awesome example of some very basic project management concepts (scope, stakeholders, measurements of success).

So this seems to illustrate the point that the success or lack thereof in a project can...