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Open ended homework questions

In my opinion no forum is the place for homework questions. The goal of going to school is to learn, and having someone on a forum simply post the answer defeats the purpose. If I wanted to answer t …
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I think we're overdoing "that's not professional" comments

Old software versions are a fact of life at many companies. Just today I was at a client who is running every version of SQL Server from SQL 2000 through 2012. SQL 2000 is dead, Microsoft won't suppo …
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