Microsoft really wants everyone's keystrokes, don't they?
This has been debunked. There is no keylogger. If you have a packet capture that says otherwise, feel free to correct everyone that bothered to look into it.
What other rationale is there to spend even $1 on a company that develops and maintains a product only to give it away to its customers free of charge?
I had to read several sentences in the find out we are talking about some kind of work rank system, not search ranking. You know... it being a search engine company and all.
The last time someone asked me for my phone number, I FB-friended them instead. We did it by name, and suddenly we were in each-other's iPhone contacts list. Obviously you don't do that for just anyone, but that fact that it's possible is an indicator that phone numbers are no longer as essential, as far as information goes, as they used to be.
Seven years ago, I met my wife (we were not yet married at the time, I can assure you), and we exchanged phone numbers. That the last time I think I ever looked at or thought about her phone number. I don't call numbers, I call contacts. The number in this case is like an initial handshake; once I have it I don't use it anymore. The phone number can go away quite easily because our mental schema is already prepared for it.
I consider a friendship a privilege if they're the sort of people who will bring a pick up truck and a strong back at 3 AM if I need it. I can have stimulating conversation with a stranger, or even an enemy. For the most part, I have found Mormons (and even JW's) to be delightful people, even if I think their theology is wacko. I have atheist friends who feel the same about my own theology, so I can hardly judge. The point of friendship is mutual personal enrichment, if even through sacrifice; not intelligent conversation.
MERGE can combine multiple INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE operations into a single atomic operation.
In PostgresSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server, MERGE is not atomic. Also, it is not UPSERT. You can use MERGE to accomplish the same end goal, but they are not synonymous and they do not work the same. Also, the syntax is idiosyncratic, and most extant implementations are problematic enough that MERGE is best avoided.
If someone has to be told to put a mult-statement SQL write operation in a transaction...
I kind of think that transactions go without saying, even for UPSERT (according to the Wiki page, UPSERT will "guarantee insert-or-update 'atomicity' for the simple cases", but leaves me questioning what a "simple case" is).
The GGP asked for "traditional" SQL, for which the GP offered the correct answer. You offered another vendor-specific solution, not standard ANSI. The GP was in no way wrong. If he was doing retry loops, sure; that would be wrong.
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The Fifth Zimbabwean Dollar was worth 100 trillion Fourth Zimbabwean Dollars.
I think I missed the chapter in Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" on software patents. I can't seem to find it.
Microsoft really wants everyone's keystrokes, don't they?
This has been debunked. There is no keylogger. If you have a packet capture that says otherwise, feel free to correct everyone that bothered to look into it.
What other rationale is there to spend even $1 on a company that develops and maintains a product only to give it away to its customers free of charge?
Intellectual property.
How far the mighty have fallen. Now we are plucking click-bait titles from the yellowest pages of the web.
Hardly a new development. Dicevertisements were pure click-bait.
I had to read several sentences in the find out we are talking about some kind of work rank system, not search ranking. You know... it being a search engine company and all.
I can't believe they're considering vetting sources for quality. That's not the Slashdot way!
Well, we can always bring back Bennett and Nerval's Lobster if you miss them....
Fucking comment spam is for cows. MOOOOO!!! MO-- aw, fuck.
This thread isn't about politics, climate change, foreign relations, or women in STEM.
Except ultranova italicized the word Progressive, indicating that he did indeed misconstrue its original usage.
They plan on monetizing this data with or without driverless cars.
"ß" becomes "ss"
My understanding is that this particular replacement is now a journalistic standard in Germany.
It's like the Slashdot of old, circa 2000 or so.
For business you can substitute FB with LinkedIn. Not everyone uses it, but it is becoming my first tool in a job-hunt.
The last time someone asked me for my phone number, I FB-friended them instead. We did it by name, and suddenly we were in each-other's iPhone contacts list. Obviously you don't do that for just anyone, but that fact that it's possible is an indicator that phone numbers are no longer as essential, as far as information goes, as they used to be.
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Seven years ago, I met my wife (we were not yet married at the time, I can assure you), and we exchanged phone numbers. That the last time I think I ever looked at or thought about her phone number. I don't call numbers, I call contacts. The number in this case is like an initial handshake; once I have it I don't use it anymore. The phone number can go away quite easily because our mental schema is already prepared for it.
MERGE is absolutely atomic. It either entirely fails or entirely succeeds.
That's not what atomicity means.
You are only stimulated by conversations in which all parties agree on everything? That's a pretty dull dinner party.
I consider a friendship a privilege if they're the sort of people who will bring a pick up truck and a strong back at 3 AM if I need it. I can have stimulating conversation with a stranger, or even an enemy. For the most part, I have found Mormons (and even JW's) to be delightful people, even if I think their theology is wacko. I have atheist friends who feel the same about my own theology, so I can hardly judge. The point of friendship is mutual personal enrichment, if even through sacrifice; not intelligent conversation.
MERGE can combine multiple INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE operations into a single atomic operation.
In PostgresSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server, MERGE is not atomic. Also, it is not UPSERT. You can use MERGE to accomplish the same end goal, but they are not synonymous and they do not work the same. Also, the syntax is idiosyncratic, and most extant implementations are problematic enough that MERGE is best avoided.
If someone has to be told to put a mult-statement SQL write operation in a transaction...
I kind of think that transactions go without saying, even for UPSERT (according to the Wiki page, UPSERT will "guarantee insert-or-update 'atomicity' for the simple cases", but leaves me questioning what a "simple case" is).
For that matter, I give him a gold star with bonus internets because he tested EXISTS instead of COUNT > 0.
Are you sure this isn't God judging your evil deeds?
/duck
/run
The GGP asked for "traditional" SQL, for which the GP offered the correct answer. You offered another vendor-specific solution, not standard ANSI. The GP was in no way wrong. If he was doing retry loops, sure; that would be wrong.