You're a brave man RBarryYoung. At least the comments here have been kinder than with the article I wrote (link omitted on purpose, still shellshocked, LOL)

Mark Horninger (4/13/2009)

---

Steve,

I did some work a while back where this was a concern - the issue was less in them stealing the code and more aorund supporting something they...

jcrawf02 (4/13/2009)

---

GilaMonster (4/13/2009)

---

... it's a very nice flight (2 10 hour flights with a 3 hour stop over in amsterdam). Much nicer than the Delta trip last year and cheaper...

Here's a better solution. Have the developer send you the code in identifiable releases (4.1, 4.2, etc.). Have the pertinent block of code/query/etc. prefaced with something like --...

Okay, have moved from the Son Of Thread to this one. Seems more appropriate somehow.

BTW, Congrats Gail on your new MVP status.

I too shall unsubscribe from "Son Of Thread"...42 pages and counting...I'm impressed.

Cheers folks.

Another thing I remember reading somewhere is how, just because you can theoretically rig 10 8-gig memory chips from jump drives, doesn't mean it's faster either. Apparently, the way...

RBarryYoung (3/16/2009)

---

Gaby Abed (3/16/2009)

---

Bob Hovious (3/16/2009)

---

All hail The Thread... Eternal is The Thread... Great is The Thread... Mighty Mighty is The Thread.

Let us make great sacrifice of cursors and recursive...

Lowell (3/16/2009)

---

in .NET, your Datasource has the ability to .WriteXML(pathToFile) and .ReadXML(pathToFile), so it's very easy to load tables into your dataset form say, SQL server, and then write them...

RBarryYoung (3/16/2009)

---

In order to answer this question, you would need a very good definition of what a "Flat File" is. This is because there are many, many things that...

Okay, will stop...LOL

Michael Valentine Jones (3/16/2009)

---

I worked at a place where an expensive outside consultant did a study of our data environment and actually proposed something like this.

The CIO just said that...

"In the beginning...

I'm guessing this thread is the one you're referring to? 🙂

Gaby

foxjazz (3/14/2009)

---

Ok set this baby... Real world.

I have a table catagory fields are description, catID, typeID. parentID

another tables queryed with (make, model, yr, engine).

in the category table makes are typeid...