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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736280 More actions · Answer 1

I didn't think it was a good design, and not sure it really saved space, but I knew it would generate discussion. Lots of people, especially developers, think this way. It's good to let them get information out there and then debate it, and gently point out problems. I think the posters did a great job, and I added notes to the top and bottom of the article for people to read the discussion.

The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 2

I added notes to the top and bottom of the article for people to read the discussion.

That's a really good idea, Steve. Sometimes the amount of value in the discussion outweighs the value of the article itself.

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Bruce W Cassidy SSChampion Points: 12668 More actions · Answer 3

Paul White (8/4/2009)
You can all relax in the knowledge that everything will be smaller and faster if we store it in XML rather than traditional relational structures.

[font="Verdana"]Whew! Thank goodness for that!

Of course, with SQL Server 2008's external file store, we can make our databases really small by storing all of our data as external files!

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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 4

Or we could just go back to flat files. Screw relational AND hierarchical databases.

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Bruce W Cassidy SSChampion Points: 12668 More actions · Answer 5

Bob Hovious (8/4/2009)
Or we could just go back to flat files. Screw relational AND hierarchical databases.

[font="Verdana"]Here's a suggestion: we could come up with a better language for working with our flat files. It should be a business friendly language. So we could call it something like Common Business Oriented Language.

Edited because I can't spell.

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Ron McCullough SSC Guru Points: 63877 More actions · Answer 6

Bruce W. Cassidy
It should be a business friendly language

Then we could develope a command called MOVE CORRESPONDING

to designate a set based operation.

And use something like PERFORM paragraph1 THRU paragraph2. when debugging,

Oh and so much more, oh gee oh golly oh gosh

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Ron

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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 7

Bruce W Cassidy (8/4/2009)
Bob Hovious (8/4/2009)
Or we could just go back to flat files. Screw relational AND hierarchical databases.
[font="Verdana"]Here's a suggestion: we could come up with a better language for working with our flat files. It should be a business friendly language. So we could call it something like Common Busiess Oriented Language.[/font]

Shouldn't we also have some kind of Report Program Generation language as well?

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004372 More actions · Answer 8

Bob Hovious (8/4/2009)
Or we could just go back to flat files. Screw relational AND hierarchical databases.

At least it wouldn't have tags in it. 😉 Well... unless it were EDI.

--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.

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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 9

Guess everyone knew Gail was gone. Not many posts in the corruption forums.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004372 More actions · Answer 10

Jack Corbett (8/4/2009)
Guess everyone knew Gail was gone. Not many posts in the corruption forums.

Somehow, that just doesn't sound right. 😛

--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)

Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 11

Not going to quote them all but you guys are funny today!!!

Awesome work.

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RBarryYoung SSC Guru Points: 143329 More actions · Answer 12

Paul White (8/4/2009)
So...today's SSC newsletter - entitled {title} - features Gain Space Using XML Data
You can all relax in the knowledge that everything will be smaller and faster if we store it in XML rather than traditional relational structures.
I posted a script in the discussion thread*.
Paul
* Spolier Alert: XML turns out not to be smaller or faster at all :laugh:

Really? Did you Zip it first? ... And Last? ... 😀

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Eswin SSCrazy Eights Points: 8320 More actions · Answer 13

Hi Expertz,

Please help me with these posts............

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic763933-65-1.aspx

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic754722-65-1.aspx#bm757143

Tanx 😀

spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 14

Eswin (8/4/2009)
Hi Expertz,
Please help me with these posts............
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic763933-65-1.aspx
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic754722-65-1.aspx#bm757143

I don't think this is a good behaviour.

I go through all new posts every day and I start from unanswered questions. If I don't add replies to a thread it's because I don't know the answer or the question is so poorly written that I don't even take the time to read it fully.

Maybe I'm wrong, but this thread is not a Bulletin Board for unanswered questions and personally I will never post a reply because somebody comes here looking for an answer.

-- Gianluca Sartori

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 15

Steve Jones - Editor (8/4/2009)
I didn't think it was a good design, and not sure it really saved space, but I knew it would generate discussion. Lots of people, especially developers, think this way. It's good to let them get information out there and then debate it, and gently point out problems. I think the posters did a great job, and I added notes to the top and bottom of the article for people to read the discussion.

And this is why I love coming here. Rather than try to supress the bad ideas you're giving them a really good airing. Let 'em out of the cage to be roundly thrashed as they deserve. Joking, sort of. But seriously, that's a big reason why I like this place. You'll intentionally publish questionable content because it will move the discussion forward by either supporting new ideas or educating people as to why some ideas are bad. Great stuff.

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