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Hi Phil
Nice editorial, sort of follows on from your piece "Never offend a captive audience"
Personally I am happy to receive the criticism.
Anyone interested in criticising my code - please...
November 13, 2011 at 3:28 pm
david.howell (11/6/2011)
... It's still a great olde insult!
Great indeed.
One only has to hear its use by Billy Connolly to appreciate its nuances.
November 6, 2011 at 10:14 pm
Better Shakespeare than Chaucer, I suppose...
Shakespeare seems particularly fond of a little cuckoldry to push the plot along, though crediting him with invention of the term "Strumpet" is perhaps taking...
November 6, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Bicker Bicker...:-P
Another interesting perspective just crossed my desk from a different source. Take a look here:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/231602467
Not all people cut IT when the going gets tricky...
October 27, 2011 at 4:57 pm
djackson 22568 (10/25/2011)
October 25, 2011 at 6:27 pm
Laptop sits beside 22 inch wide screen connected to the dock. Dock sits on a desktop, hooked up to another 22 incher. Control from one mouse and keyboard of 2...
October 16, 2011 at 6:16 pm
Stephanie J Brown (9/29/2011)
There's therapy for this, right?
You're probably right. But what hope is there for code magpies when there are such enablers as 1TB external hard drives?:ermm:
CP
September 29, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Nicole Bowman (9/29/2011)
September 29, 2011 at 5:55 pm
tmagney (9/14/2011)
Coincidentally, a friend of mine posted this article last week titled "Why a Travel Break Can Be the Best Career Move You’ll Ever Make":
Excellent article.
I left after...
September 14, 2011 at 6:42 pm
Given the choice between recruiting a person with experience traveling the world for a year and one without, all other things being equal, there's no contest. The former is likely...
September 13, 2011 at 9:00 pm
Just as a slight off-topic post, you have all noted I hope that there is a difference in behaviour between stored procedures named sp_blah and those named, say, usp_blah?
🙂
September 4, 2011 at 6:05 pm
The results could depend on the existence of database test2...
August 22, 2011 at 9:44 pm
SQLMitch (3/16/2011)
March 17, 2011 at 1:02 am
Phil Parkin (3/10/2011)
Brings to mind a whole batch of accountants doing multi-tab analyses very very slowly and knowing that there must be a better way...
Oh but they do (or at...
March 10, 2011 at 11:44 pm
We have a reasonably well established structure relating to DR, including data loss.
DR planning has been conducted, including the sequence of actions from the disaster, through declaration of disaster, requirement...
March 6, 2011 at 6:28 pm
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