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  • RE: Unravel Some Complex IF Logic

    OH,

    If we -- Identify the equivalent logic from the options shown: as in the question, only option 4 is similar and covers all the bases, but it's uglier than the...

  • RE: Unravel Some Complex IF Logic

    It depends on how you apply your logic.

    Answer 3 cannot be correct since options 1, 2, and 4 are neither identical nor equivalent, because only Option 1 initializes @Result. Plus...

  • RE: SQLServerCentral apologizes and you can win a book

    Plagarism on the internet, shocking. No, it's not OK to do it, but it makes you wonder how much info actually remains in the hands of the author. It seems...

  • RE: Create and Populate a Date Dimension Table

    Nice - But you have missed President's day as a Holiday. Third Monday of February.

  • RE: Do you know your getdate()?

    Well I tried running sysdatetime on these 2 servers and wondered about the results.

    So I modified my query to dump the results into a table so I could see better....

  • RE: Do you know your getdate()?

    I, too, ran this code on one server and was getting 3 milliseconds. I was curious as to the duration of the test and the inner workings of the code...

  • RE: Coding More Carefully

    At college a girl, she was called Amanda, once completed an exercise to learn to programme in Ada (under the section iteration) which was to print the alphabet backward.

    I...

  • RE: Coding More Carefully

    Good code is based on ability and knowledge, better code is based on design. If you have to jiggle things a lot then one or the other is probably lacking....

  • RE: Coding More Carefully

    I do coding, or programming, and I tend to run the programs many times when building a solution so that I can see how things are working at that point....

  • RE: Are We Not Testing Enough?

    What color of crayon is interesting, if not a bit relevant, I'd probably think of an HTML color after the interview. Other than that it would depend, If my friend...

  • RE: Are We Not Testing Enough?

    The best DBA/ programmer in the world could be your worst candidate if their attitude is abusive, or you suddenly find out that your new hire seems to spend a...

  • RE: Are We Not Testing Enough?

    I guess I don't know about testing. I was hired 8 years ago, 2 weeks before I graduated from school ( and I'm 50 years old), as an RPG developer...

  • RE: There Must Be 15 Ways To Lose Your Cursors... part 1, Introduction

    Hi,

    I come from an RPG/DB2 background so I am sort of used to looping through records in order to do something, but I haven't actually used a cursor yet. Does...

  • RE: Where a Rose is not a rose…

    Phil did start talking about database collation, and then wished for a computer language for 'real work'.

    And the byline to the article is -

    "Just because mistakes have become entrenched...

  • RE: Where a Rose is not a rose…

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    If both variables were in the same scope, they would be the same variable. If they were different scopes (say local to two different subs or functions) they would be...

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