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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150468 More actions · Answer 1

WayneS (11/8/2010)
Interesting - I always thought that when creating a procedure with parameters, that all of the parameters were to be in a set of parenthesis. I never knew the parenthesis were optional...

That's functions. I never used parentheses with procedures until a year or so ago when I noticed someone doing it. I've sort of adopted it since then for consistency's sake...

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 2

GabyYYZ (11/8/2010)
GilaMonster (11/8/2010)
Does this count? http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1017255-1292-1.aspx
Handled with the patience of Job...(or was that resignation).

The latter.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 3

Craig Farrell (11/8/2010)
GilaMonster (11/8/2010)
Does this count? http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1017255-1292-1.aspx
Been guilty of that a few times myself. Service Broker was my last occurence of that.

I did much the same with service broker. Tried it cross instance first then, when I just couldn't get the messages to send, moved back to a single instance. I think there's a difference between reading up on something and then trying the hardest option first and trying something simple and not even trying to find simple syntax mistakes.

I'm betting you did some investigation before going to the other DBA.

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jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 4

Paul White NZ (11/8/2010)
WayneS (11/8/2010)
Interesting - I always thought that when creating a procedure with parameters, that all of the parameters were to be in a set of parenthesis. I never knew the parenthesis were optional...
That's functions. I never used parentheses with procedures until a year or so ago when I noticed someone doing it. I've sort of adopted it since then for consistency's sake...

I think I'll do the same, I haven't been using them at all, but it makes more sense (now anyway it'll probably bother me if I don't :-P)

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Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 5

Minor derail. I wrote up an article in the editor here that I'm working on. I'm not sure how to give a link or visibility to another for review. For those that have worked with it before, how do you go about allowing another to proofread it? Just copy/paste to a text file and email it?

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 6

Craig Farrell (11/8/2010)
Minor derail. I wrote up an article in the editor here that I'm working on. I'm not sure how to give a link or visibility to another for review. For those that have worked with it before, how do you go about allowing another to proofread it? Just copy/paste to a text file and email it?

Just put it into a text editor and email it.

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Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 7

CirquedeSQLeil (11/8/2010)
Craig Farrell (11/8/2010)
Minor derail. I wrote up an article in the editor here that I'm working on. I'm not sure how to give a link or visibility to another for review. For those that have worked with it before, how do you go about allowing another to proofread it? Just copy/paste to a text file and email it?
Just put it into a text editor and email it.

Was afraid of that, the encoding doesn't seem to behave well for fonts/headers. Recommendations on keeping that straight?

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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 8

Forget the online text editor... put it into a word document. Steve will convert it.

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Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 9

WayneS (11/8/2010)
Forget the online text editor... put it into a word document. Steve will convert it.

NOW you tell me... 😛

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Chad Crawford SSChampion Points: 11610 More actions · Answer 10

Jeff - you replaced a SharePoint 2010 presentation that was moved to Thursday. It seems to have replaced a session on High Performance Functions.

If I'm able to make it to your session (I was scheduled to be elsewhere), I'll be the one asking Sharepoint questions every 5 minutes 😛

Chad

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 11

WayneS (11/8/2010)
Forget the online text editor... put it into a word document. Steve will convert it.

Seriously?

I have always converted it myself.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 12

WayneS (11/8/2010)
Forget the online text editor... put it into a word document. Steve will convert it.

Yeah, it's only the uninitiated (and those have far too much spare time) who use that blasted online editor junk. 😉 :hehe:

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 13

I've written mine in Word.

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 14

Colour Ereader announced (newscientist.com). I know there are interested folks here - you can now buy one.

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 15

Chris Morris-439714 (11/9/2010)
[-- link deleted --] I know there are interested folks here - you can now buy one.

What a useless write up that was. You think they could have mentioned the size of the display!!

OH OH. Anti-virus just picked up something on my computer. Computer stopped responding as I went to that page.

Delete that link!!!!!

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