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  • RE: Code Writing Code

    From your editorial, I expected Buck Woody's post to be quite different from what it was. His focus is on generic tools that write code (i.e, code written by someone...

  • RE: COUNT_BIG

    sjimmo (3/9/2010)


    Good question - Thought that I knew the answer, and was wrong. Now, I have a question. I ran the following against an existing database to prove/disprove the answer,...

  • RE: How to use Database mail feature in SQL Server 2000

    jinlye (3/9/2010)


    From the article:


    It might take a few more years before all of the existing SQL Server 2000 applications are upgraded to newer versions of SQL Server.

    SQL 2000 SP4...

  • RE: Cast vs. Convert

    Rune Bivrin (3/8/2010)


    Good question, but which alternative is correct depends on how you define platform. If you define "platform" as "versions of SQL Server", then CONVERT works in every version...

  • RE: Cast vs. Convert

    I've done a lot of SQLXML programming with simple queries in XML files and XSLT files to transform those query results to HTML pages. I used CONVERT a lot to...

  • RE: Decoupling in Relational Databases

    shan plourde (3/2/2010)


    Why a surrogate PK in the User/Group table?

    Edit: I misread your question as "tables" and explained why I would want ones in the User and Group tables, respectively....

  • RE: SARGable

    Dietmar Weickert (2/26/2010)


  • No info about indices on the table/view to be queried? Who could potentially know about SARGable operators. And even if there were this information, who is able to...

  • RE: The R2 Penalty

    Elliott W (2/17/2010)


    Clive Chinery (2/17/2010)


    Steve Jones - Editor (2/17/2010)


    I do think it's unfair that we cannot buy an older product that meets our needs.

    I agree.

    Doesn't this exist outside the...

  • RE: SELECT setter

    john.arnott (2/11/2010)


    <rant on> I can't imagine that 85% of respondants actualy knew the result of the SELECT

    where the condition is false would not be assigned to the variable. </rant>

    What...

  • RE: Time Bomb Coding

    Samuel Vella (2/10/2010)


    Storage is cheap, CPU cycles wastes energy!

    I take it you've never compared the power usage of even a small SAN to that of a midsized database server... Storage...

  • RE: Forecasting with SQL

    Martin Vrieze (2/9/2010)


    When these forecasting tools are used to base critical business decisions that impact people's lives and livelihoods, PLEASE be sure and leave this type of work to the...

  • RE: Multi-statement execution

    Very good question. You can find some documentation supporting this behavior here:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa933206(SQL.80).aspx

    Specifically:

    If execute_statement is used with INSERT, each result set (my emphasis) must be compatible with the columns in...

  • RE: Wildcard

    To be strict, the source data was a red herring. A where clause shouldn't be based on the data you have, but the data you want.

    In this case, for example,...

  • RE: The power of batching Transactions

    This article leaves me with more questions than answers.

    First off, there are no indexes on the table in the example. How would adding indexes and inserting non-sequential data affect the...

  • RE: Predict output for ROUND function

    I'm honestly surprised at the number of people here who were not aware of the approximate nature of IEEE floating-point numbers. That information was in every programming class I took...

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