Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Jeff Moden (5/14/2009)


    Steve Jones - Editor (5/13/2009)


    Ahhh, Klingons asking questions. About databases? Could be interesting....

    Heh... still not as bad as some of the questions folks ask on the forums. 😀


    Steve Jones - Editor (5/14/2009)


    Might not be any different questions 😉

    Heh. Might not be any different "folks". 😀

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  • Sql Server DBA with 4 Hrs of experience. Thats a strange experience... 🙂

    -Roy

  • Roy Ernest (5/14/2009)


    Sql Server DBA with 4 Hrs of experience. Thats a strange experience... 🙂

    At least he didn't say Senior SQL DBA



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  • On Qo'noS, none rise to the rank of Klingon Senior DBA except over the bloody bodies of their fallen predecessors.

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  • Bob Hovious (5/14/2009)


    On Qo'noS, none rise to the rank of Klingon Senior DBA except over the bloody bodies of their fallen predecessors.

    Me thinks Bob's gone off the deep end!

    Bob, relax, you don't have to sing tonight. Meeting moved to next week.



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  • Regarding the post referenced at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/transactsql/thread/5853c544-42d1-415e-9f65-29b5286fc21e ,can someone post this alternative solution ?

    The posed solution specified uses 3,346 ms of CPU time but this solution uses 375 ms.

    DECLARE @ChannelIdtinyint

    ,@Valuefloat

    ,@BeforeTsdatetime

    set@ChannelId = 1

    set@Value= 0.5

    set@BeforeTs= cast ( '2009-01-01 05:33:19.950' as datetime )

    select *

    FROM(SELECT ExceededTs

    ,MAX (ChannelData.[TimeStamp] ) as UnderTs

    fromdbo.ChannelData

    join(select MAX ( ChannelData.[TimeStamp] ) as ExceededTs

    fromdbo.ChannelData

    whereChannelData.ChannelId = @ChannelId

    andChannelData.[TimeStamp] @Value

    ) as Exceeded

    on ChannelData.ChannelId = @ChannelId

    andChannelData.[TimeStamp] < ExceededTs

    and ChannelData.Value < @Value

    GROUP BY ExceededTs

    ) as Channel

    JOINdbo.ChannelData as ChannelExceeded

    on ChannelExceeded.ChannelId = @ChannelId

    and ChannelExceeded.[TimeStamp] = Channel.ExceededTs

    JOINdbo.ChannelData as ChannelUnder

    on ChannelUnder.ChannelId = @ChannelId

    and ChannelUnder.[TimeStamp] = Channel.UnderTs

    SQL = Scarcely Qualifies as a Language

  • Wow! At ten posts per page, mine would be Four Thousand, Four Hundred, and Forty-Two! Woohoo!

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  • Sorry, Alvin. I went to see the new Star Trek movie for a second time last night. 😀

    For the record, I don't play the banjo and my singing voice is "questionable."

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  • Gaby Abed (5/14/2009)


    Wow! At ten posts per page, mine would be Four Thousand, Four Hundred, and Forty-Two! Woohoo!

    Make it: Four Thousand, Four Hundred, and Forty-Four! 4444!

    LOL, not that I'm worried that this thread will die or anything.

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  • Gaby Abed (5/14/2009)


    Wow! At ten posts per page, mine would be Four Thousand, Four Hundred, and Forty-Two! Woohoo!

    At least I can say that my signing voice is NOT questionable. It's horrible!



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  • Bob Hovious (5/14/2009)


    On Qo'noS, none rise to the rank of Klingon Senior DBA except over the bloody bodies of their fallen predecessors.

    And that's different from current-day corporates how?

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  • GilaMonster (5/14/2009)


    Bob Hovious (5/14/2009)


    On Qo'noS, none rise to the rank of Klingon Senior DBA except over the bloody bodies of their fallen predecessors.

    And that's different from current-day corporates how?

    On Qo'noS, it is done in open combat with bat'leth and honed execution plans.

    Corporate assasinations are without honor.

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    Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills

  • Proudly present my personal hall of blame #1:

    nested row_number () function

    :pinch:

  • Get some sleep, Flo! Wake up in the morning and have more coffee.

    Tomorrow is another day. 😀

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    Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills

  • Carl Federl (5/14/2009)


    Regarding the post referenced at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/transactsql/thread/5853c544-42d1-415e-9f65-29b5286fc21e ,can someone post this alternative solution ?

    Done.

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