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  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    Aaron N. Cutshall (4/3/2009)


    But, done properly,

    make the query rather self documenting.

    No. NO!!! NO!!!! The table name itself is the most accurate representation of what's...

  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    Hope I don't misattribute anything here...

    Heh... in which cases are [table-valued functions] better? They typically are the cause of performance problems in the face of any scalability

    I meant...

  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    YES, T-SQL is a strange and somewhat poor programming language. I tend to think in terms of sets, not in terms of procedural programming, and yet there are still...

  • RE: Rename Foreign Key Constraints

    Instead of changing the system catalogs, the procedure should generate a call to the SP_Rename proc to do the same thing in a standard way.

  • RE: Uploading Text File with Header and Trailer Records

    I have the same kind of data also.  Personally, I think it is very common.  Currently I have a small .NET (VB) program that reads the text file, creates the...

  • RE: A Love Hate Affair with User Defined Types

    I *wish* that UDTs could be changed (redefined).  I once wanted to redefine a UDT, and was really surprised that the type definition couldn't be changed.  That would SEEM to be...

  • RE: empty DB columns are not ''''NOT NULL'''' so search for not null fails

    You mean IsNull(field,'') rather than NullIf(field,'').

    NullIf(Field1,Field2) returns Null if the fields are equal.  IsNull(Field1, Field2) returns the second parameter if the first is null.

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