Why is article rated so low?
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http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/contributions/1552.asp
It seems like it has a decent solution and was just wondering if their was a better way.
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Probabely 2 things make this a low rating >>
1 - Formatting should always be done at the client if possible
2 - This doesn't need a function to be accomplished, it can be used straight in the select for better performance.
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So they got bad ratting possibly because of assumptions.
1 - Agreed, but as you said, "if possible".
2 - for a small shop/site performance may not be as much of an issue as reuseability.
Thanks for the feedback. Only way to learn is from mistakes and questions
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There's reuseability client side too!!!
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Your assuming you have good programmers. Could be good DBA and bad programmers. Either way I do agree just saying that sometimes it can't be done the "best" way. It was still nice to see another solution of a common problem.
It would be really nice if people voting could leave comments as well
This would allow others to know the good/bad w/o having to guess if there was something more than the obvious.Thanks again for the reply.
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Add it in the suggestion section of the site.
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Just did
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The ROUND() function has a little-known third argument that specifies whether to round or truncate. ROUND(<value>,2,1) would solve the problem better than the code in the article.
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Thanks Scott!!! That is just the info I was looking for. Now that makes function in the article useless and deserving of 0 stars
BTW My suggestion of a comments section is already on the list of things to do
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