Steve Jones - Editor (10/9/2009)

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Great to see so many people investing in themselves and taking responsibility for their career.

Just by visiting SQLServerCentral you're doing that. Learning, reading, asking/answering questions,...

Silverfox (10/9/2009)

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VALEK (10/9/2009)

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Imagine this.. You work in a medium sized company, using MSSQL2005 and nothing else.

They are very tight on budget, try to be productive, focused and specialised, unlike government...

I think training is important and especially with us working in technology that changes everyday we have to stay on top. Unfortunately my employer does not send me on training...

I just said to myself that I don't think a B-Tree is a Binary tree rather a Balanced tree but then I searched it on Google and saw in big...

Rick Romack (9/10/2009)

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I do disagree with this answer,

If I run

DECLARE @STR NVARCHAR(10)

SET @STR = '1, 2, 3, '

SET @STR = LEFT(@str, LEN(@str)- 2)

select...

Grant Fritchey (9/3/2009)

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That's a tough question. There are so many comparisons these days between our current financial situation and the Great Depression. I don't think most of the comparisons hold...

That is so true and we, yes I include myself, do not always pay attention to little details like spelling and big details like attitude. :w00t::w00t:

Oops! I wonder what he'll say about my articles and blogs!!! Don't look please.:w00t::w00t:

Paul White (7/17/2009)

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For those too lazy to look up CAST and CONVERT (in the truncating and rounding results section):

The integer value 34 is not converted to char(34), it is converted...

Please...

Well here in South Africa we do not have an Independence Day and what we have in common with the US is fighting the British and there was actually a...

Tell me all about it. I found a way to make my family understand that I am a software developer and that hardware is not my thing and sorry, I...

Whether you call it disaster recovery or basic recovery doesn't matter. What matters is that you have it in place. You need to make sure that backups is in place...

Trust is like respect earned not given but trust runs wide. Like Lynn said, you can trust your doctor with your health but not with your car or computer. I...

I just received my Simple Talk newsletter and the editorial was about "The Exceptional DBA - a Developer's Perspective" by Laila and I quote a piece from her editorial here.

"There...