[quote user="blakeyrat"][quote user="dhromed"][quote user="Weng"]How do you know what indexes to create?[/quote] I don't know. I really don't.[/quote] 2) The answer I'd give, which I'm certain is not the one Weng is looking for, is I'd run the SQL Server Profiler during the long query and ...

[quote user="Manni_reloaded"]After scouring the Google for a few minutes, I found his resume where he declared himself to be "proficient with Windows agriculture".[/quote] That has something to do with server farms, right? You guys work in the Cloud?

[quote user="TGV"][quote user="pkmnfrk"] BEDMAS: Brackets Exponents Division, Multiplication Addition, Subtraction = 6 - 1 x 0 + 2 / 2 = 6 - (1 x 0) + (2 / 2) = 6 - (0) + (1) = 6 + 1 = 7 Where did 5 come from? [/quote]  Congratulations. You are the 100,000 person who didn't read the whole story. You ...

[quote user="Sutherlands"][quote user="Manni_reloaded"]PS- is it sad that I'm stuck on the fact this is obviously VB and in your first code chunk you added a C++ style comment? [/quote]No mention of the super-crappy version of hungarian notation?[/quote] oReader, myReader...

I think the point is that the minus sign in A2 is being treated differently than in A3. Eg, in A2, it has higher priority than the exponent: =(-a1)^2+1 Instead of =-(a1^2)+1 Whereas in A3, the minus sign is the subtraction operator, and has a lower priority than the exponent. If you rewrite A2 like this, it matches A3: =0-a1^2+1 I guess they ...

BEDMAS: Brackets Exponents Division, Multiplication Addition, Subtraction = 6 - 1 x 0 + 2 / 2 = 6 - (1 x 0) + (2 / 2) = 6 - (0) + (1) = 6 + 1 = 7 Where did 5 come from?

[quote user="Sparr"]I've just been informed that it's "industry standard" to prevent users from using common and easily guessed passwords, and our implementation of this "standard" is to make a list of strings that cannot appear within any user's username, password, or password hint. Here are some examples ...

[quote user="blakeyrat"][quote user="pkmnfrk"]Just out of curiosity, did you try my possible solution in the third post? Genuinely trying to help[/quote] I don't recall asking for help. If you want to see if it works, why don't you download their broken-ass program and try it yourself?[/quote] Well no, because ...

[quote user="joe.edwards"][quote user="blakeyrat"]it's not safe to save files in there as it could very well be read-only[/quote] Is it actually documented somewhere that it's OK for this directory to be read-only? This seems contradicted by your very next line. [quote user="blakeyrat"] AFAICT its only ...

[quote user="blakeyrat"][quote user="gu3st"]Don't forget the part that he runs a non-standard setup as well which has a Environment variable available for userdata set to read-only..[/quote] It's a standard setup, the Environment variable isn't read-only the path it points to is. [quote ...