Surfing and drawing.

Surfing is a special challenge because I live in Western New York. So I surf on the Great Lakes (quit laughing, it can be done!) and vacation on...

And why the change in syntax? So now a DBA has to recognize two different code snippets that do exactly the same thing. Hopefully there is a sound underlying reason...

LOL.

We really are geeks.

I was accounting for the time dialation effects of near light speed travel.

Sudden epiphany.

What kind of person follows a thread about computer geek movies?

AHHHHH! I'm still a geek

Office Space is in the same universe as Dilbert.

Tron is really cool.

Wargames ranks up there.

What about Blade Runner?

Such a simple idea. Gotta love it.

The only thing you didn't mention (unless I missed it) is that size of the database isn't the only factor to consider. The transaction throughput is important too.

Another consideration...

I'm so confused.

Steve says I'm right, Baklabob says I'm wrong.

I think I'll just go into mid level managment and avoid the issue

'-' standing by itself has no value, hence considering it a number is dubious at best. Also, assuming the zero length '' should be considered equivalent to zero isn't logical, because again, it...

Grrrrr ....

This is why I.T. is so freaking complex. It is completely without logic that a hyphen can be EVER be interpreted as a float or integer. Operators must have...

While the question was indeed vague and ambiguous, I for one often enjoy the extra stuff that gets posted is such cases. The crystal clear questions with cut and dried answers...

Well, the correct answer should have read "Use the -x option and send the desired logs separately". But that would have been giving away to much.

The reason no one has implemented standards is simple - it isn't in the best interests of their business. Does anybody believe Microsoft (or Oracle) gives a rip about how well...

Good point.

I'm envisioning nightmare scenarios where unware programmers push everything into the CLR and drag the server down into a quagmire of processing irrelevant requests. I'm sure some 'wizard'...