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The SQL of The Game of Life

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Joe Celko finds a reference to Conway's Game of Life while clearing out his desk, and is suddenly gripped with nostalgia. It wasn't just flares, mullets and disco, but simple computer games in interpreted basic. Somehow, Conway's Game of Life was too intriguing to be abandoned in the attic. Can it be implemented in SQL? Joe sets up a challenge.

2014-06-16

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RE: Data in two tables

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Hi Sushila,suser_sname() prints the same user as user_name().Here is my trigger:CREATE TRIGGER [track_time] ON dbo.ATTENDEES FOR UPDATE AS UPDATE ATTENDEES SET timestamp1=GETDATE(), User_name1 =suser_sname() FROM ATTENDEES JOIN deleted ON ATTENDEES.FTKey=deleted.FTkey AND ATTENDEES.Day1<>deleted.Day1

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RE: SQL and IIS on the same Box?

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I agree that security is getting tougher (wait, it was always tough!). I'm hoping that the tool vendors will fill in the gaps. Locking down the enviroment is fairly mechanical, it's just there are so many different places. Andy http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/

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