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Rod at work SSC-Dedicated Points: 34009 More actions · Answer 1

I find this somewhat sudden interest in statistics interesting. I got my degree in mathematics, so naturally I took some statistics classes. For most of my life having taken math was just somewhat tolerated in social situations. If you mentioned statistics, eyes glazed over. Now, apparently, its the "In thing". Funny, just funny.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004366 More actions · Answer 2

Step one would be to learn how to return the bloody current date and time using T-SQL. 😉

--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)

Gary Varga SSC Guru Points: 82166 More actions · Answer 3

Jeff Moden (9/16/2016)
Step one would be to learn how to return the bloody current date and time using T-SQL. 😉

Maybe some of us would have paid attention if you mentioned this before.

Gaz

-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004366 More actions · Answer 4

Gary Varga (9/17/2016)
Jeff Moden (9/16/2016)
Step one would be to learn how to return the bloody current date and time using T-SQL. 😉
Maybe some of us would have paid attention if you mentioned this before.

Can't tell if you're being a bit ironic or not, Gary.

--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)

Gary Varga SSC Guru Points: 82166 More actions · Answer 5

Jeff Moden (9/17/2016)
Gary Varga (9/17/2016)
Jeff Moden (9/16/2016)
Step one would be to learn how to return the bloody current date and time using T-SQL. 😉
Maybe some of us would have paid attention if you mentioned this before.
Can't tell if you're being a bit ironic or not, Gary.

I was. But deadpanned it. :hehe:

Gaz

-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!

djackson 22568 SSChampion Points: 11733 More actions · Answer 6

Rod at work (9/16/2016)
I find this somewhat sudden interest in statistics interesting. I got my degree in mathematics, so naturally I took some statistics classes. For most of my life having taken math was just somewhat tolerated in social situations. If you mentioned statistics, eyes glazed over. Now, apparently, its the "In thing". Funny, just funny.

It is kind of sad. Where I live, it seems the teachers in grade school can barely do basic math. Ask them to explain things so kids can make a leap in understanding is impossible because they never made that leap. The university I went to refused to offer classes that we needed for a math minor because "nobody is interested".

Examples: Not teaching how to divide or multiply by 10 by moving the decimal point, explaining how to determine if a number is divisible by 3 or 9, and other very simply rules.

How can we expect the future generations to be scientists of any kind when we dumb down the curriculum in order to make every child feel good.

Dave