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  • RE: The Dream Machine

    Alex Gay (9/7/2012)


    I've got to that age where as long as it works, reliably and consistently I'm happy.

    Same with me. At work we have recent Lenovo equipment which works quite...

  • RE: Does anyone have a good database schema to handle GEDCOM data?

    The question is quite old now, but I just see it right now.

    I was creating a schema a while ago which you could find in the attachment along with the...

  • RE: The Influence of the Cloud

    "Cloud" sounds to me to be a great marketing word. It could mean a lot of things or services but what they have in common is transferring private or company's...

  • RE: Object Naming Conventions

    Graham-1036457 (11/13/2011)


    Is there any documented Naming Conventions for Tables, Views and Functions?

    We know that Stored Procedures names are prefixed with sp_, but is there a prefix convention such as tbl_...

  • RE: Does It Help

    I had two at work, but gave one back as it did not work for me as I suffered from headaches and eye pains due to that. One large monitor...

  • RE: Which Bugs Do You Find?

    smolak (5/20/2011)


    I would agree with previous commenters that bugs can be classified in the following categories:

    1) Process bugs

    2) Data related bugs

    3) Misunderstanding user requirements

    I don't believe that "the lack...

  • RE: From Great Idea to End Result

    roger.plowman (5/25/2011)


    Users never know what they want. IT doesn't know the user's job, so *they* don't know what the user wants either.

    I guess getting a very clear and detailed picture...

  • RE: JOINing in the WHERE clause?

    CELKO (11/26/2010)

    Older, experienced SQL programmers use the original syntax so they can see n-ary relationships. ACCESS programmers have to do JOIN predicates in the ON clauses then filter in the...

  • RE: DROP Index problem

    karl-heinz (12/2/2010)


    upps..

    thank you for your help, it works!

    I was just thinking:

    DROP Index table_name.index_name

    also must be:

    ALTER INDEX index_name ON table_name.index_name REBUILD;

    but I was wrong...

    In SQL Server index names must be unique...

  • RE: Table Normalization

    Brigadur (11/23/2010)


    Thanks Philipp for the nice poster! Really handy

    Cheers

    You are welcome!

  • RE: Table Normalization

    Here you could find a poster about normalization:

    http://www.tf-informatik.dk/FreeStuff/rettigNormalizationPoster.pdf

  • RE: Cartesian product to create table takes FOREVER... any way to speed it up?

    I guess you would receive more input if you give information about your hardware, SQL Server version and the time you mention as "forever".

    A CROSS JOIN can be expensive...

  • RE: Help with SELECT query between certain time-frame

    Just fyi - you could also use BETWEEN instead of WHERE ... >= AND ... <=

  • RE: Julian date to regular date conversion

    You could also use a calendar table and fill it with the date ranges needed and join it in your queries.

  • RE: Life Without a Net

    Jeff Moden (11/1/2010)


    What I'm even more concerned about is lost learning due to the fact that certain programs and formats are no longer available.

    For long term storage anything in...

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