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  • RE: Data Vices

    skjoldtc (12/5/2008)


    It would be a completely horrid life if I followed every diet, health, and social norm. I may live to be 100 but it would be a miserable 100....

  • RE: Data Vices

    With regard to smoking, I beleive there are 3 groups:

    Non-smokers: Either never smoked or tried it and didn't like it so never got the habit.

    Smokers: Currently smoke.

    Ex-smokers: Used to be...

  • RE: Data Vices

    david.murden (12/5/2008)


    I don't even enjoy smoking any more, i started when i was young, immature and stupid and like most others i wish i never had. I will give up...

  • RE: Data Vices

    At work, if my coffee cup is empty, I go and fill it...

    Also, I love extra mature cheddar cheese and, at home, find the only way to avoid it is...

  • RE: The Wild Fringes of SQL Server Development

    From my experience, a lot of the 'data dump' brigade are developers (particularly web) who have written front ends for other databases (e.g. MySQL) and hence adopt a 'lowest common...

  • RE: The Ebb and Flow of Community

    I count myself as just an average poster ... I have asked and answered a few questions, but wouldn't put myself in the same class as some of the top...

  • RE: Happy Thanksgiving

    Infonote (11/27/2008)


    According to Wikipedia, the answer is e)

    Thanksgiving, also known as Thanksgiving Day, is a harvest festival. Traditionally, it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express...

  • RE: Happy Thanksgiving

    Derek Dongray (11/27/2008)


    Tom Brown (11/27/2008)


    Steve only does 10-pointers for Pagan festivals, Like Halloween and Yuletide 😀

    ... And Thanksgiving is a Political holiday? 😀

    Actually, not being American, I've never really...

  • RE: Table Variables

    Tom Brown (11/27/2008)


    Steve only does 10-pointers for Pagan festivals, Like Halloween and Yuletide 😀

    ... And Thanksgiving is a Political holiday? 😀

  • RE: How Productive Are You?

    I use MS Project to plan most of my jobs (design/implement/maintain/document a database application with a web front end - about 800 objects in the db and 1200 files in...

  • RE: What is affected by IGNORE_DUP_KEY?

    The response to the bug report simply says this is 'by design'. It would be useful to know why this design decision was taken and whether it should be reviewed,...

  • RE: How do I properly determine "system" stored procedures?

    rbarryyoung (11/10/2008)


    Derek Dongray (11/10/2008)


    I assume R.Barry Young was kidding ...

    Not really, "Not Left(name,3) = 'sp_'" is actually what I use. I've never had a problem with it.

    Unfortunately, in the...

  • RE: Normalizing-Denormalized Tables

    Hi Jeef,

    I just learned a function ... STUFF ... which solves the problem I was aware of relating to value chosen for the 3rd argument to SUBSTRING ... There isn't...

  • RE: Normalizing-Denormalized Tables

    WayneS (11/10/2008)


    What I would recommend doing for it though is to instead of using all of the replace statements, is to:

    Yes. The REPLACEs were used because the case where I...

  • RE: How do I properly determine "system" stored procedures?

    WayneS (11/10/2008)


    Seems kinda hokey to me... MS should have these procs marked as being IsMSShipped.

    The flag 'isMSShipped' simply indicates that something existed in the database when it was created, i.e....

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