Dan,

I think that your article is accurate and fair. I enjoyed reading it and actually laughed out loud at some the stuff I read by following the links. I have...

Be careful with your statment ...

between '2006-03-25' and '2006-03-26'

if a record on 3/26 is added at exactly midnight + 1 msec, then you will get it. between is inclusive (2006-03-06...

You are right with this test. The first reply was ok too but the test on the second field for null is not necessary. Both solutions get around a potentially...

We need a little more info to give a good solution.

1. Where are the servers located ? local or remote?

2. How do you connect to them ... over the...

I think you are right on .. We don't comply with SOX  and I dont plan to. We are actually thinking of moving off shore. We will of course report...

I think this is one of the best articles that I have read here. It is clear, stays focused, go straight to the point, has no grammatical errors (well, I did...

I once showed a new employee how to delete all the files in a subdirectory ...

Type in   ... delete c:\mydir\*.*    ...

"but be careful, if you leave out the subdir, you...

I've harped on this before but those kinds of employees are every where, like fleas on a dog. It's not their fault that they are in an important position with...

Steve,

You are right, there is so much lost energy from programmers writing the same code that someone else just wrote but there are very good reasons for it. The biggest...

One of the best articles I have read on the evils of XML (besides my own comments to management). Now that I am boss, I have banned all XML from...

Your solution could (and I've seen it happen many times) produce a hugh query which could run for a long time, sending too much data back to the client. The...

Darnit , I hate that. My 11 year old got me too !!

Are you really surprised. Now that they are public, all the good "old" coders are probably all history and only the young inexperienced new IT grads are being hired who...