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  • My 15 yo brain is saying "ass/butt being divided infinity"...

  • Jason A. Long wrote:

    My 15 yo brain is saying "ass/butt being divided infinity"...

    "semper in excretia, solum profundum variat"?

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  • Jason A. Long wrote:

    My 15 yo brain is saying "ass/butt being divided infinity"...

    Jason, you're closer than you think.

  • jonathan.crawford wrote:

    Jason A. Long wrote:

    My 15 yo brain is saying "ass/butt being divided infinity"...

    "semper in excretia, solum profundum variat"?

    No, but I love it! 😀

  • Jason A. Long wrote:

    My 15 yo brain is saying "ass/butt being divided infinity"...

    Like Ed said, you're closer than you think...

    Rather than continuing to torture with trivia... the answer is...

    "My ass is on the line forever". 😀

     

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

  • Jeff Moden wrote:

    Jason A. Long wrote:

    My 15 yo brain is saying "ass/butt being divided infinity"...

    Like Ed said, you're closer than you think...

    Rather than continuing to torture with trivia... the answer is...

    "My ass is on the line forever". 😀

    I was thinking, “ass on the line...something”. I just could not get the infinity symbol to fit. I even thought, “my ass is always on the line” but thought it was a stretch.

    The way you phrased it, it makes perfect sense.

  • I thought it was either your hair standing on end or on fire and your eyes bugging out from all of the RBAR.

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  • Sergiy wrote:

    David Burrows wrote:

    Sergiy wrote:

    Robert Sterbal wrote:

    In nearly 30 years of using excel there are very few situations that don't have a straight forward work around.

    built a report from an SQL database for a big international customer. The actual recipients of the report were their customers. So, the output was requested in the most common format - CSV.

    Almost immediately they started complaining about incorrect account numbers in the report. Tirned out, 18 digit account numbers have been converted to float numbers while importing to Excel.

    Can you suggest a workaround for this issue?

    Apart from moving to Open Office?

    Only way I know is to put apostrophe before the number, it will appear when the file is loaded in excel but at least it will not be converted.

    that was the first thing I did - they were not quite satisfied.

    Apostrophes had to be manually removed after importing, or all sorts of lookups they've been using would not work.

    If you want a real wacky long winded way, create a 2003 XML Worksheet formatted file with .xls extension. They will get the usual excel data differs from extension prompt but least the data will load correctly formatted.

    Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
    Anon.

  • I must have explained that issue (opening CSV in Excel rogers the underlying data) more than a thousand times.

    Access solves the problem, but how many accountants use Access?

    The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
    Martin Rees

    You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.
    Stan Laurel

  • Phil Parkin wrote:

    I must have explained that issue (opening CSV in Excel rogers the underlying data) more than a thousand times.

    Access solves the problem, but how many accountants use Access?

    Was that aimed at me ?

    Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
    Anon.

  • David Burrows wrote:

    Phil Parkin wrote:

    I must have explained that issue (opening CSV in Excel rogers the underlying data) more than a thousand times.

    Access solves the problem, but how many accountants use Access?

    Was that aimed at me ?

    Your post provoked the rant, but it wasn't 'aimed' at anyone.

    The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
    Martin Rees

    You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.
    Stan Laurel

  • Random frozen pork chop?

    Do launchers require registration and a permit?

    Does Anyone offer a safety class?

    It seems injuries are rather rare. Or is this something the news ignores?

     

  • Greg Edwards-268690 wrote:

    Random frozen pork chop?

    Do launchers require registration and a permit?

    Does Anyone offer a safety class?

    It seems injuries are rather rare. Or is this something the news ignores?

    The news ignores it.  It's easier to change the long standing names of parts of DNA. 😀

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

  • Greg Edwards-268690 wrote:

    Random frozen pork chop?

    Do launchers require registration and a permit?

    Does Anyone offer a safety class?

    It seems injuries are rather rare. Or is this something the news ignores?

    Cannon's are legal in Massachusetts. I'd go with one of those over a launcher.

     

    "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
    - Theodore Roosevelt

    Author of:
    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

  • Amazing!

    Is there a guide for in flight cooking? Frozen, thawed, and properly cooked would be good to know.

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