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  • RE: Recognizing Talent

    Oh yeah, this is the same Microsoft that recently stated they can't find enough qualified workers in the US, and they say we have to import IT help from other...

  • RE: Calculated field in a join

    dave platt (4/28/2008)


    Customer:

    Ref varchar(10)

    Invoice:

    InvoiceNumber int, CustomerRef varchar(10)

    InvoiceDetails

    id int, InvoiceNumber int, CustomerRef varchar(10)

    SELECT inv.*, det.*

    FROM Invoice AS inv

    INNER JOIN

    InvoiceDetails AS det

    ...

  • RE: Historical Dollars

    I don't volunteer a salary history because I don't want that to be the main consideration before I even get to the interview. I consider my last salary irrelevant...

  • RE: Multiple And operators in Where clause

    Remember that 'datetime' stores time out to the milliseconds...

    'mm'dd'yyyy hh:mm:ss.###'

    Your comparison datetime is only showing seconds...'3/20/2008 9:51:30'.

    Check your data to see if your datetime column values have a millisecond component...

  • RE: Interview guidelines

    Like others have said, if you don't know an answer, be honest about it. Trying to talk your way thru something you don't know undermines your integrity (if you...

  • RE: Storage Size

    Yes, great question, just not implemented properly.

    I am curious to how the question author missed the length for the nvarchar columns. Or am I missing something?

  • RE: Ambiguous Column name ??

    Try this...

    GROUP BY #tempRespPriceSummary.ID_PRODUCT

  • RE: Advice on handling varying product attributes in an online store

    Before I used a sub-table for each different product type, I would use a single 'ProductAttributes' table, and an attribute lookup table to hold an instance of each attribute. ...

  • RE: Query

    Ok, here's a replacement question...

    Q. What query would return the employees whose 'join_date' (from the employee table)

    was in a month that has 28 days in it? (assume 'join_date'...

  • RE: GETDATE

    What is it about the data (records) that are being returned is not correct?

    Are you getting too many records, too few records, none at all?

    Start with your embedded query (I...

  • RE: What kind of DBA are you?

    Here are some interesting links...more stuff on SQL than you ever wanted to know.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/abriefhistoryofsql/1125/

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL

    This was quoted from wiki, but also on the other link.

    The acronym SEQUEL...

  • RE: What kind of DBA are you?

    GSquared (4/4/2008)


    They may or may not prefer to say it letter-by-letter, they're kind of required to by the fact that Sequel was an IBM trademark (might still be one, but...

  • RE: Bachelors degree - Who has one, or even more education?

    I view education of any form, whether formal or informal, as the one thing that can't be taken away from you. It is an investment in yourself, and personally, I...

  • RE: What kind of DBA are you?

    Sequel for me too...sounds funny when I hear people say 'S-Q-L Server'.

    In my experience it has been non-users that say it spelled out. Now you go and tell me...

  • RE: Largest Unit

    Derek Dongray (4/4/2008)


    Since the Si system was only extended in 1991 to include the Yotta- prefix, I'm sure it will be extended again once someone finds a need!

    ...you mean like...

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