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  • RE: What Motivates Microsoft Against Spam?

    As important as security is, it's very difficult to actually get marketing traction, because good security is essentially invisible (like a tire maker marketing 'no blow-outs'). People talk about security,...

  • RE: Arithmetic overflow error converting numeric to data type numeric

    let me ask a further question:

    Sometimes there is a nonconvertable value in a query, but the query simply terminates and rolls back. Is there any way to see exactly which...

  • RE: Better Secure This Data

    One would hope that any such system would have a conventional password backup (I would certainly never trust one without an alternative method in). There are a lot of things...

  • RE: What If You Took Another Path In Life…

    I'm probably considerably older than you, but the one thing I can say about my life is that it was not planned out. I still do not have *a* goal...

  • RE: Which data type should be used: Varchar or Text. Survey says..............

    Another potential angle:

    Hash (such as MD5) the text field and keep that in a separate field. Calculate a hash the incoming value and compare it to the existing field, if...

  • RE: SQL Execution Plan Bug!

    Unless I misunderstand your code, @x is a value determined *before* the select and presumably does not change during the process!!!!, so it would make much more sense to evaluate...

  • RE: Retention

    It's important that after all is said and done, turnover will still happen, and it's not necessarily the fault of management, or lack of sufficient perks.

    People have lives. They have...

  • RE: What''s the Point of File Sharing?

    The real danger is when legitimate products become the target of the lawyers (and possibly the lawmakers). This is a serious threat to the potential of the internet.

    Example of what...

  • RE: MID Function SQL

    here is a generalized function (we often need to extract a specific comma delimited segment) which allows you to specify the 1st, 2nd etc comma segment:

     

     

    CREATE         FUNCTION [dbo].[parsecomma] (@fld varchar...

  • RE: excel export import

    Thanks to everyone who's contributed a reply so far.

    1) To those wondering why I want to use Excel: These tables will be filled in with large chunks of catalog data...

  • RE: my ISP won''''t open port 1433

    Consider a VPN

    Opening up your SQL over the web without a VPN is a very dangerous thing to do anyhow.

  • RE: The Case for GUIDs

    Yes it's an interesting technical question, but its a very ominous political development. Notice that there was no indication that PM had anything to do with contraband, but they were...

  • RE: Open Source is Not a Career Path

    While there's places for varying models, a working open source world has room for exponentental growth.

    Imagine medical progress if each doctor kept private whatever he learned about particular diseases. He's...

  • RE: Open-ended querying of DB (???)

    Have you considered a series of VIEWS to provide a denormalized presentation to the user, keeping the mechanics of table relations in the background?

  • RE: Another job failed error

    Yes, I can run it from the server under terminal services.

     

     

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