[F!st!cuffs]

I recently had an interview for a developer/db position. The interview was with the head of the IT department and the DBA. I was posed with the following question from the DBA.
"Do you know of any wild card characters in SQL and what are they"
My answer was asterisk, question mark, and modulus are a few. He said percentage was one too and I informed him that percentage and modulus were the same thing. I was under the impression that most in the IT field would know it's the same but maybe it's just those with a programming background. So what do you call it?

[5thWall]

Depends on the context. If I'm using it as an operator then it's modulus. If I'm using it as a character then it's a percent.

[Tom9729]

http://en.wikipedia....odulo_operation

There's a table on the side of what symbol different languages use as their modulo operator.

[KYA]

Its both. Context determines what it actually is.

[BetaWar]

Agreed with KYA and 5thWall. Depends on usage.

[Gloin]

When I sit down with the head of the IT-department, I call it whatever he calls it.

[KYA]

If he was wrong, I'd tell him he was an idiot.

[Gloin]

In the middle of a depression, are you nuts? or just economically independent?

[BigAnt]

It depends on the context. If I'm writing a program I am using the modulus. If I'm reading interest rates it is 6.00 percent not 6.00 modulo.

[supersloth]

if i'm using it as a modulus i just call it mod, if it's a percentage or another function like a wildcard, just percent sign.

[KYA]

Gloin, on 8 Jan, 2009 - 06:34 PM, said:

In the middle of a depression, are you nuts? or just economically independent?

Depression is a lie. The computer science field is going nowhere but up. Plus, I'd do it on principle regardless of the economic situation.

[mikeblas]

KYA, on 9 Jan, 2009 - 06:23 AM, said:

Plus, I'd do it on principle regardless of the economic situation.

NO HIRE.

[jacobjordan]

I call it a percent sign. It can be a modulus operator, but if you are referring to the symbol, then most people will know it as a percent sign. Trust me.

[bodom658]

percent sign, definatly

[MonkeyNuTz]

KYA, on 9 Jan, 2009 - 06:23 AM, said:

Gloin, on 8 Jan, 2009 - 06:34 PM, said:

In the middle of a depression, are you nuts? or just economically independent?

Depression is a lie. The computer science field is going nowhere but up. Plus, I'd do it on principle regardless of the economic situation.

Your stuff isn't getting repossesed, so you haven't felt it yet. Wait another two years. My bet is that taxes will increase and gas prices will sky-rocket.
On the issue of the thread, it really doesn't matter too much what you call it, as long as you know what it means and how to use it in certain situations. To me, it's a percentage sign; whether it's being used to code or not. I'll refrence mod if somebody asks about programming involving it, but there's really no other reason for the use of that term.