Steve Jones - Editor (12/16/2008)

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I need to look at Google mail. I've heard it searches well, and it should. Right now my account is an archive where I send stuff...

You can always use tags and then build a taxonomy later based on the tags.

A project I developed (an inhouse used equipment sale/trading site - which eventually got canned before...

Sure. You should know that I am not a DBA but...

mzak (12/3/2008)

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I honestly "very strongly dislike" [aka hate] this mentality. I intentionally try to work myself out of my tasks. It causes personal and corporate growth. The...

I've seen a ton of outsourcing in medical and banking. Whether that affects security, I can't say, but it certainly affects their profitability (negatively, in my experience).

On the other...

Yeah, I use that occasionally. I would prefer if there was a...

Shouldn't it be CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) (i.e. CR + LF)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline

And another thing - being proactive, I would never do this stuff twice. If I had to investigate a problem (and couldn't easily prevent it with a CONSTRAINT or...

Yes, typically, I would have jobs on the various servers in Agent and they would normally email (we used SQLAnswersMail on SQL Server 2000 because it has nice HTML formatting...

Finally got it working:

DECLARE @Pattern AS varchar(6)

SET @Pattern = '%TODO%'

;WITH ROUTINES AS (

-- CANNOT use INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES because of 4000 character limit

SELECT o.[name] AS ROUTINE_NAME, m.definition AS ROUTINE_DEFINITION

FROM sys.sql_modules AS m

INNER...

According to the article, the system is not in production. It shouldn't have been allowed to even get this far.

If a system is working, needs tweaks and performs acceptably...

RichardB (5/20/2008)

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Cade Roux (5/19/2008)

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I love this:

I've learned that when business people tell me that getting to market is more important than running their business well, I'm only there to postpone...

You can use EAV or XML for easy maintenance user-defined stuff you don't know is coming in the evolution of application lifecycle - by WHY USE IT FOR THE PARTS...

I love this:

"The suggestion was right in the long run, but as I have mentioned previously, the project had gone so far it was very difficult to revert back. So,...

If I could get one of Safari or Books24x7 or PDFs on the Kindle, I would probably go for it.

As far as novels etc, it will still make more sense...