Tom

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• What Chinese Food Has Taught Me About Life

  Posted on Mar 27, 2009 at 6:49 AM

  <blockquote back at you>Dude, these people swam the Pacific Ocean with daggers in their teeth and a kid under each arm to open a restaurant here. What good would your instructions on security have served getting them where they've been to where they are now? Look at the time y'all are devoting... read more »

• What Chinese Food Has Taught Me About Life

  Posted on Mar 26, 2009 at 5:56 PM

  I'm not a salesman, but I *have* taken sales and marketing courses in order to learn client requirements and needs, and one of the things that you immediately are taught (and apparently some never remember :-( ) is that for every ONE person that complains, you have already lost NINE other customers ... read more »

• Are SQL PATINDEX() And The SQL LIKE Clause Doing The Same Thing?

  Posted on Sep 24, 2007 at 9:39 AM

  The biggest reason for using or not using PATINDEX probably would be whether or not you need the location of the value...maybe you might want to parse the value for some reason, like doing a replace on Sexy with another piece of text, or extract the value to use elsewhere. PATINDEX is kind of like ... read more »