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Bye Bye FIPS... We Hardly Knew Ye...

SQL Server has an option called SET FIPS_FLAGGER that many developers don't even know about. This option warns you if your code does not comply with the SQL-92 levels of compliance specified by FIPS 127-2. This used to be a requirement if you wanted to sell your DBMS to the government. Effective...

Posted to Pseudo-Random (Weblog) by Mike C on 02-18-2008
"Exact Numerics" Re-visited

Wow, seems like I have a lot to write about today. I just noticed a blog by SQL Server guru Hugo Kornelis about the difference between "exact" and "approximate" numeric data types. (Hugo's blog entry is here: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/hugo_kornelis/archive/2007/10/17/so-called...

Posted to Pseudo-Random (Weblog) by Mike C on 10-20-2007

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