Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Anyone want to tackle a semi-complex reporting / accounting issue?

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1290025-1291-1.aspx#bm1290373

  • The Dixie Flatline (4/25/2012)


    "If you want to unserstand(sic) what's happening in Western (USA, UK, France, etc) society/politics today read 1984, Animal Farm, and Fahrenheit 451. Plus a good dose of Kafka, Collins' The Path to Freedom, The Man who was Thursday and The Flying Inn. Maybe one of Clifford Simak's more pessimistic novels too. "

    Tom, I was curious if you had ever read "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley? Lightweight compared to Kafka, but eerily prescient for something written in 1931.

    Yes, it's an excellent book and maybe I should have included it in my list; but while a part of the populations of western countries are so steeped in irrelevance that they illustrate the dead end described and show that we still risk ending up there, I think that the oppression suggested in 1984 is more in tune with the powers that be (and their appetites for state control of everything and no control of organs of the state) on both sides of the pond.

    Tom

  • Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/26/2012)


    Anyone want to tackle a semi-complex reporting / accounting issue?

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1290025-1291-1.aspx#bm1290373

    Steve, How far out do you have QotD planned? I have been trying to get one completed and submitted.

  • Current QOD status. I have them scheduled through May 9, plus a few random days out past that, but I also have 16 submitted right now that I'll go through tomorrow or Monday.

  • Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/26/2012)


    Current QOD status. I have them scheduled through May 9, plus a few random days out past that, but I also have 16 submitted right now that I'll go through tomorrow or Monday.

    I'll work hard to get you mine this weekend. I've only been sitting on it for a week or two.

  • Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/26/2012)


    Current QOD status. I have them scheduled through May 9, plus a few random days out past that, but I also have 16 submitted right now that I'll go through tomorrow or Monday.

    And articles, how far forward are things scheduled?

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  • ROFLMAO!

    Definition of Clueless.

    But do not fear, he will solve his problem.

  • Lynn Pettis (4/26/2012)


    ROFLMAO!

    Definition of Clueless.

    But do not fear, he will solve his problem.

    at least on most of his other posts i could some what understand what the problem was. this one. Wha??


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    Lynn Pettis (4/26/2012)


    ROFLMAO!

    Definition of Clueless.

    But do not fear, he will solve his problem.

    at least on most of his other posts i could some what understand what the problem was. this one. Wha??

    If a boolean (bit) is 1, another parameter gets a '+' in front.

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  • GilaMonster (4/26/2012)


    capn.hector (4/26/2012)


    Lynn Pettis (4/26/2012)


    ROFLMAO!

    Definition of Clueless.

    But do not fear, he will solve his problem.

    at least on most of his other posts i could some what understand what the problem was. this one. Wha??

    If a boolean (bit) is 1, another parameter gets a '+' in front.

    But, of course a bit is not boolean in SQL Server unless declared with NOT NULL

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  • GilaMonster (4/26/2012)


    capn.hector (4/26/2012)


    Lynn Pettis (4/26/2012)


    ROFLMAO!

    Definition of Clueless.

    But do not fear, he will solve his problem.

    at least on most of his other posts i could some what understand what the problem was. this one. Wha??

    If a boolean (bit) is 1, another parameter gets a '+' in front.

    But this is what he said:

    if i select true the other parameter value should include + infront fo fit.if i select no ,it should be same

    If true should include '+'. If no it should be same. Does that mean it should also have a '+'?

    It's really hard at times to really know what he is asking.

    Actually, what I was laughing at is the mixed terms for the boolean. True and No. I always thought it was True/False, or Yes/No, or 0/1 (unless from Access, then it's 0/-1), or On/Off.

  • But, of course a bit is not boolean in SQL Server unless declared with NOT NULL

    It can work as a boolean but only for significantly large values of NULL. :w00t:

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  • Lynn Pettis (4/26/2012)


    GilaMonster (4/26/2012)


    capn.hector (4/26/2012)


    Lynn Pettis (4/26/2012)


    ROFLMAO!

    Definition of Clueless.

    But do not fear, he will solve his problem.

    at least on most of his other posts i could some what understand what the problem was. this one. Wha??

    If a boolean (bit) is 1, another parameter gets a '+' in front.

    But this is what he said:

    if i select true the other parameter value should include + infront fo fit.if i select no ,it should be same

    If true should include '+'. If no it should be same. Does that mean it should also have a '+'?

    No. It should remain the same, ie unchanged.

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    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • Lynn Pettis

    Actually, what I was laughing at is the mixed terms for the boolean. True and No. I always thought it was True/False, or Yes/No, or 0/1 (unless from Access, then it's 0/-1), or On/Off.

    This would indicate that there is on/off or even black/white inside there...I think it is only slightly varying shades of nearly colorless gray.

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    Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 1) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69953/
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  • Oh, so sad. He is claiming another victim.

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