HD,

I really like the extra columns you have included for Database name, Object name, etc.

Thanks for sharing!

David,

Thanks for the elegant trigger, perfect for keeping an eye on those rogue developers! (like me -- hey, wait a minute ...) 😉

I think it's not so much that he asked dumb questions, but that he is getting paid a lot more money for his level than co-workers who work more independently,...

I really like jpowers' solution:

jpowers (9/26/2008)

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I ended up hiring someone better than him that I put in charge of the technical team, over Eric. That made sure the right...

I can see that on a large project, with a lot of developers, a 9 AM quick "stand-up" meeting to summarize important information is an efficient way to make sure...

The photo is from the EDS "Herding cats" commercial - from a Superbowl game a number of years ago. If you haven't seen it, you have to watch the...

Cool! My daughter and I watched that show and were especially impressed with that segment! Awesome!

Oh, yeah, you're right. I forgot that the answer had the MSDN reference link.

ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/udb9/html/ddc311fe-f3cc-4e99-b86b-43ce822ceda3.htm

I am still interested to know how they know the 40th row is the one needed? What if someone else adds more rows to this table? Would the...

Jeff, thanks for that great test script. I like your code for building 1,000,000 row table. I'm saving this code for reference.

Thanks for pointing out how much more...

Julie Breutzmann (9/12/2008)

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Happy birthday Steve!

I just had my birthday.

The best gift was one I gave: my husband and I took our grown children and their significant others to the...

Just wanted to let you know I tested the three different string functions, LIKE, CHARINDEX and PATINDEX, on a script I have to do data cleansing on name and address...

Tobar and Jack,

Thanks for your comments. I just wanted to make sure that there wasn't something I should have been doing instead of using the RTrim function. I...

I just ran into this problem in SSIS this week! In my Data Flow, I had to convert varchar columns to be used in nvarchar columns in the final...