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Comment · 6 years ago
Croatia - Hrvatska is another... BTW people in the Netherlands will say Holland as well... when the Dutch team play soccer, hup Holland (come on/let's go Holland) is a common chant (there are even songs with that name)
Comment · 6 years ago
two not one... Zuid Holland and Noord Holland
Comment · 6 years ago
Some of mine

Was testing code and pushed a file to FTP 2 days early... vendor picked up, processed file.. the people who signed up in the next 2 days were in the file pushed later... but the vendor already processed the earlier file so they didn't get their metro cards that month

Somehow managed to rebalance underlying components for a Trendpilot ETF monthly instead of quarterly... daily audit that compares the values on NYSE vs in our DB caught it.. lucky for me there was no money in it yet

dropped a table once at lunch time right before taking a bite of my sandwich... did restore table within 10 minutes , didn't eat lunch that day ... lost appetite...

In ETL tool hardcoded something to test.... left it there when running for real

Comment · 6 years ago
Most databases will use all the cores you can throw at it :-)

Not out of the ordinary to see a SQL Server query using 20+ cores for a query with a parallelized plan

Comment · 6 years ago
so?.. still not equal to anything, two unknowns are not equal

if null = null print 'true' else print 'false'

Comment · 6 years ago
Same in SQL Server.. this is documented behavior

Also a null is no equal to anything.. not even another null

This will print false in SQL Server

if null = null print 'true' else print 'false'

Comment · 6 years ago
Interestingly in dutch oranje is the color but sinaasappel is the name of fruit in dutch.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Cooking is art, baking is science.

If you get the measurements wrong, your end product will be 'wrong' Cooking gives you ways to fix your mistakes.. (add water, cook it more, add spices etc etc)

Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
I would probably use unasked instead of undemanded

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