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  • RE: Guest Editorial: Information is Power

    Lynn Pettis (3/2/2009)


    More laws aren't the answer, unfortunately. It seems we have a hard enough time enforcing the ones we already have on the books.

    Unfortunately, the current British government...

  • RE: Guest Editorial: Information is Power

    I think a major problem is that a lot of modern ideas (not just centralized databases) are not thought through. The push is to get them to 'market' as quickly...

  • RE: Guest Editorial: Information is Power

    More items:

    In one of the papers I read last week, someone received notification from the National Health Service about appointments which they hadn't made because, as it turned out, NHS...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Roy Ernest (2/26/2009)


    Grant Fritchey (2/26/2009)


    Heck. I thought LISP was stacks of comma's. What am I thinking of then. I worked with some damned language back in '92 or '93 where...

  • RE: dynamically determine parameter values

    The only reason I can think you might be wanting this is to add some kind of standard auditing, so you just drop in a standard block of code and...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (2/25/2009)


    Wow... THAT does bring back memories! Holy shades of punched cards, Batman!

    Hole-y punched cards? :blush:

    //DWDX JOB DWD

    //X EXEC PGM=IEFBR14

    //F DD DSN=POST.TEXT,DISP=(MOD,DELETE,DELETE),UNIT=DASD

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Roy Ernest (2/25/2009)


    We could have a thread here that fights out the best practice list and we can provide a final list to the Newbies. 😀

    Then someone could write an...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Alvin Ramard (2/24/2009)


    Yesterday was an interesting day on here. I don't think any of the posters were picked on, except for a quick reference to a White.house employee.

    Maybe the...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - Editor (2/24/2009)


    My connection seems to flake as well. I know there's a router that's flapping to new IPs at times because my IM will disconnect and reconnect...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jcrawf02 (2/24/2009)


    Derek Dongray (2/24/2009)


    Max (2/24/2009)


    Derek Dongray (2/24/2009)


    I really must get around to changing my ISP and seeing if I can get things fixed. 🙁

    Yip, I'm moving to a 8mb region...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Max (2/24/2009)


    Derek Dongray (2/24/2009)


    I really must get around to changing my ISP and seeing if I can get things fixed. 🙁

    Yip, I'm moving to a 8mb region soon but thankfully...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (2/23/2009)


    Max (2/23/2009)


    Gail, commiserations re Telkom. I've got a moderate package for a tech fiend: unlimited 16down and l.5up for £15pm, life is tough in the UK, no? 😛

    ...

  • RE: Dynamically creating sql server job using SP and kicking off the job

    Ramesh (2/18/2009)


    Derek Dongray (2/17/2009)


    This is for SQLserver 2008. Are there equivalent procedures for SS2K5?

    Plus I'd also like an equivalent for sp_start_job.

    I've taken the excerpt from SQL 2005 BOL, and are...

  • RE: How do I stop Automatic Update trying to install an incorrect fix

    This is a development laptop, not a server. It's set to 'download only' (the same way I set most machines), however, since it's got SP3 installed, I'm surprised that it...

  • RE: How can i split my input variable string and compare?

    There is...

    [font="Courier New"]-- This should really be a permanent table because it's soooo useful

    DECLARE @tally TABLE (n INT)

    INSERT @tally SELECT row_number() OVER(ORDER BY id) FROM sysobjects

    -- I've used a table...

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