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  • RE: Waiting on a KILL

    Good question. This happened before on my network - it clarifies the pieces of the puzzle.

  • RE: Extracting a Numeric Reference from a VARCHAR field

    Jim,

    Out of the box SQL 2005

    declare @myTab table( ExtRef varchar(9), IntRef decimal(38,19))

    insert into @myTab(ExtRef,IntRef) values ('$1.00',0)

    insert into @myTab(ExtRef,IntRef) values ('2.1',0)

    insert into @myTab(ExtRef,IntRef) values ('A',0)

    update @myTab

    set IntRef = case when...

  • RE: Extracting a Numeric Reference from a VARCHAR field

    declare @myTab table( ExtRef varchar(9), IntRef decimal(38,19))

    insert into @myTab(ExtRef,IntRef) values ('1',0)

    insert into @myTab(ExtRef,IntRef) values ('2.1',0)

    insert into @myTab(ExtRef,IntRef) values ('A',0)

    update @myTab

    set IntRef = case when isnumeric(ExtRef) = 1 then ExtRef...

  • RE: Changing Passwords

    I love the last answer - just go home. That one is the winner. :w00t: Gotta love it when someone has a sense of humor. ...

  • RE: IGNORE_DUP_KEY

    The negative ("This option may NOT be specified...") - urrgh... semantics. Does it mean that it can be but that you shouldn't because it doesn't make sense but it is...

  • RE: Full-text Search

    if a thesaurus is consulted new words may be introduced and if it is possible that these words are stopwords then they would need to be processed after being introduced.

    Makes...

  • RE: Full-text Search

    Good Question.

    Once you understand what stopwords are there is only one logical processing order.

    Mark, can you explain how you arrived at this conclusion? I am with some of...

  • RE: timestamp vs timestamp

    I wasn't aware of the ODBC datatype. Good question. Answer was obvious after the following worked:

    DECLARE @ts timestamp, @dt as datetime

    set @dt =...

  • RE: Spatial Indexing

    The concepts behind the spatial indexes are, by far, one of the most interesting aspects of 2008 SQL queries. I'm not sure it deserves three points, but please keep...

  • RE: DB File Extension

    Gee... I figured I would get this one wrong. It was so obvious that the question was not specifically including log files when the statement asked for database files, that...

  • RE: Counts Puzzle

    There was also that new

    grin nullgroup means no one invited

    keyword NULLGROUP not far from the DINNER subquery.

  • RE: Rowversion

    MIN_ACTIVE_ROWVERSION (Transact-SQL)

    [This topic is pre-release documentation and is subject to change in future releases. Blank topics are included as placeholders.]

    This question is good but a bit confusing. It...

  • RE: Exponent Engima

    "Exclusive or" ouch - I was thinking exponential also.

    Arguments expressing dismay that mixing numeric types provide incorrect results, hmmm, isn't that a big part of programming?...

  • RE: Power

    A bit unnerving to answer this one... is it for Windows SQL Server 7.0, 2000, 2005, 2008 - did they change anything to allow it to work in some cases...

  • RE: TOP and TABLESAMPLE

    No apology necessary - I always get them wrong when I am sure I know the answer. I learned something - that's more important than the points (frosting).

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