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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Bob Hovious (3/24/2009)


    He is still hung up on numbering rows so that he can walk through them a row at a time like elements of an array. ...

  • RE: Date-ing Myself & Other T-SQL Date Tricks (and bad puns)

    GilaMonster (3/24/2009)


    YSLGuru (3/24/2009)


    Where did you see this formula listed ofr getting the Start of the month?

    I don't recall seeing it anywhere. The version to trim the time off a date...

  • RE: Retuning the actual datbase username. Is CREATE USER the culprit.

    [font="Verdana"]No, database roles are different.

    If you are using Windows Authentication, then (hopefully) you have some sort of Windows directory service (Active Directory or Kerberos or something of that nature.)

    Create a...

  • RE: Date-ing Myself & Other T-SQL Date Tricks (and bad puns)

    Rob Fisk (3/23/2009)


    There are a huge number of instances where you would want to format the date within sql or get its various elements.

    [font="Verdana"]Agreed. But there are also a...

  • RE: T-Sql rant

    [font="Verdana"]Interesting. I would agree that SQL is not "relational" as Codd envisaged it. I'm not sure that's necessarily such a bad thing, and to point at some failures...

  • RE: Date-ing Myself & Other T-SQL Date Tricks

    [font="Verdana"]Okay, some thoughts:

    The first is, do you really need to be formatting dates at the SQL Server level? A lot of the time, this is best left to the...

  • RE: Retuning the actual datbase username. Is CREATE USER the culprit.

    Takauma (3/23/2009)


    Bruce:

    With the user example above, returns:

    "TEAMWORK\akruesse" , "DBO", "DBO"

    Desired value would be "Agnes_Kruessel"

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    Interesting. Have you tried creating a login for a Windows AD group that has rights to...

  • RE: Retuning the actual datbase username. Is CREATE USER the culprit.

    [font="Verdana"]Okay, so you have used Windows authentication.

    I did a quick check on a database here which uses Windows authentication. There's a login created for a group of which I...

  • RE: PLEASE Help with sp_ExecuteSQL!!!!

    [font="Verdana"]What is your system doing that it needs to provide the ability to run dynamic functions?

    I can think of worse things, because there's certainly a limit to what functions can...

  • RE: Super Quick Table Meta Data

    [font="Verdana"]Here's a modified form that will work with SQL Server 2005.

    Note that I have not reviewed the code other than to change the issue of assignment during variable declaration (a...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    [font="Verdana"]Woot! Article from Gail! Finding the Causes of Poor Performance in SQL Server, Part 1[/url]

    Of course, I never have to find causes of poor performance myself... noooo....

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  • RE: T-Sql rant

    [font="Verdana"]Well... didn't this thread start as a rant about the (percieved) inadequacies of the T-SQL language? In which case, discussing alternatives to the way SQL does things (as...

  • RE: T-Sql rant

    steve dassin (3/22/2009)


    I'm not saying sql is flawed. I'm saying sql is flawed when it comes to application development.

    [font="Verdana"]I guess I am slightly lost on what the difference is. ...

  • RE: T-Sql rant

    Jeff Moden (3/22/2009)


    The only reason why I'd want to write such an article is for those people who have had the mistake heaped upon them so they can at least...

  • RE: T-Sql rant

    Sergiy (3/22/2009)


    And believe me, mapping of SourceSystem+OriginalID to InternalID works perfectly.

    No service required.

    [font="Verdana"]Heh. Not when you have an enterprise architect who insists that the appropriate solution is to...

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