right ... the OP is thinking like a C++ programmer who iterates through files and not an SQL programmer who works with sets of data.

the logic could be put into...

what sort of 'logic check' do you need to do ?

What I've seen in my last 2 job hunts (1 currently ongoing) is the use of tests like Brainbench. For a contract gig I got a year ago, I...

Oracle is an MVCC database, while MySql and DB2 are traditional lockers. Unless InnoDB is written to MVCC semantics (how much work that requires, I don't know), MySql...

nice article, but I'm puzzled by the statement that you "feel that people are afraid of Joins in SQL Server".

I mean, joins (inner/equi, at least) are one of the most...