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LutzM SSC Guru Points: 107049 More actions · Answer 1

CirquedeSQLeil (3/17/2010)
tstaker (3/17/2010)
Just thought of a great idea for an article for one of you forum vets. Top 10 DBAs Myths
That should stir up plenty of controversy. Maybe it should be done for 4/1

What's so special about January 4th?? 😛

Lutz
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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 2

Lynn Pettis (3/17/2010)
Like clustered indexes are better than nonclustered indexes?

No - tables don't need a clustered index because that causes invalid data returns.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 3

lmu92 (3/17/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (3/17/2010)
tstaker (3/17/2010)
Just thought of a great idea for an article for one of you forum vets. Top 10 DBAs Myths
That should stir up plenty of controversy. Maybe it should be done for 4/1
What's so special about January 4th?? 😛

Timewarp

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 4

Has anybody heard any news about Barry's surgery?

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 5

CirquedeSQLeil (3/17/2010)
Has anybody heard any news about Barry's surgery?

No, but why don't you use TimeWarp to go forwards to the day he comes back and see what he says. 😛

Alvin Ramard
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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 6

Alvin Ramard (3/17/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (3/17/2010)
Has anybody heard any news about Barry's surgery?
No, but why don't you use TimeWarp to go forwards to the day he comes back and see what he says. 😛

Do you know what day that is?

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 7

CirquedeSQLeil (3/17/2010)
Alvin Ramard (3/17/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (3/17/2010)
Has anybody heard any news about Barry's surgery?
No, but why don't you use TimeWarp to go forwards to the day he comes back and see what he says. 😛
Do you know what day that is?

nope

Alvin Ramard
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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 8

Paul White (3/17/2010)
WayneS (3/17/2010)
In BOL for ODBC Scalar Functions, it has a syntax of {fn ...}. Do you have a link that shows the use of d/t/ts like you used above?
Yep...http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180878.aspx#ODBCDatetimeFormat

Thanks Paul.

I see there things like guid also... I'm gonna have to look into these. Glad to have learned something new!

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004366 More actions · Answer 9

Lynn Pettis (3/17/2010)
[font="Comic Sans MS"]Looks like the TitD (Tent in the Desert) will be hosting another party fairly soon!![/font]
Jeff only needs 83 more posts to break the 20,000 posts mark!

Heh... should be enough time for Steve to come up with the "mug". 😛

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 10

A thought just occurred to me.

We see several people complaining about the English in the QOD. What if we responded to all QOD comments for a given time period in another language? Think that would ruffle some more feathers?

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 11

CirquedeSQLeil (3/17/2010)
A thought just occurred to me.
We see several people complaining about the English in the QOD. What if we responded to all QOD comments for a given time period in another language? Think that would ruffle some more feathers?

Klingon?

Alvin Ramard
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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 12

Alvin Ramard (3/17/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (3/17/2010)
A thought just occurred to me.
We see several people complaining about the English in the QOD. What if we responded to all QOD comments for a given time period in another language? Think that would ruffle some more feathers?
Klingon?

Any language you like. It would be a real hoot if everybody was speaking a different language:-D

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 13

Did somebody order a babelfish?

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 14

The Dixie Flatline (3/17/2010)
Did somebody order a babelfish?

Yup:-D:-D:-D

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004366 More actions · Answer 15

Alvin Ramard (3/17/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (3/17/2010)
A thought just occurred to me.
We see several people complaining about the English in the QOD. What if we responded to all QOD comments for a given time period in another language? Think that would ruffle some more feathers?
Klingon?

Hampster poo-eese.

--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)