Most of the time I try to design things assuming the scale will increase, and may increase significantly. To me it seems to depend more on how many columns...

You got me on that one! These questions are kinda fun once in a while. Maybe it should have been saved for April 1.

This year I made it a priority to get to a few conferences (SQL in the City, SQL Saturday, CodeStock), and they were all beneficial. Plus I enjoyed the...

Same here

Makes me wish I wasn't still on 2008. Thanks for the simple question.

Years ago at my previous job, people were leaving left and right. I'm pretty sure every person gave a notice, and only a few were allowed to work it....

Nice to see a QOTD that cannot be answered with "it depends".

Good QOTD. I think of NULL not as "no value" but as "I don't know".

My two cents...

The 2 best programmers/designers I have ever worked with were both female. Each of them could tackle any problem, design any system, or just simply figure things...

Good question. One of those code tricks where I go "this is really cool but I can't think of anywhere I would use it".

I've heard of retailers who make it all too easy to walk up to one of their terminals and get to a root prompt.

Miles Neale (7/31/2013)

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Time for the morning ramble -

First off I am old-school. What I do is a reflection on me. It is not the specifications not...

Howard Perry (7/25/2013)

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Can you not get satellite internet?

Asheville NC, which is close to the Smoky mountains is about the same distance/time from the ocean as Leipzig is to the Baltic.

I...

I live in a small town near the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, and work for a software company here. There are two challenges I've seen here:

1- Finding...

We tend to avoid ORDER BY clauses in stored procs because we let the application do the sorting. A lot of times the app can sort it faster. ...