Can we improve on CHECKSUM()? Mike C# is not happy with the reliability of CHECKSUM() and asks for a better function that has less (or no) chance of collisions.#513376 : A Better Collision-Free Hash Function for Comparing Rows of DataService termination and fatal exceptions are bad, m'kay? Victor Lobanov found an easy way to crash SQL Server, ...

Here are the Connect items I'd like to draw your attention to this week.  I have abandoned the idea of trying to keep track of vote counts and overall rating.  Being lazy might be a small part of it, but it is mostly because I just don't think it makes sense to assume that my postings are all that influence Connect behavior.  I know ...