Someone here imported a large text file using ADF, and all the fields ended up as nvarchar(max). I was livid. I don't think the person who did this even bothered...

This is a topic for which I'd very much appreciate a summary to wrap this up. This is new to me. Something in the form of

- instead of this

- do...

When I run that code I don't get an error.

Are the people who said that RDBMS is becoming obsolete information technology computer grads with no experience? I bet they are.

Have a little exercise/contest at work to create a simple...

I'm curious if the answer to this question on stackexchange affects anyone's performance. We are moving to 2022, and Jeff's comment makes me pause.

https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/333767/new-sql-server-2022-slower-than-old-2014-server

That is the best description of Rank() and Dense_Rank() I've read. Thank you.

Yes, printing at FedEx. Forgot about that.

I use a flash drive especially when I need to transfer something to someone else's computer. e.g. my wife who insists that I don't mess with her computer because she...

I'd like to try SQLAgent but I get a conversion failed error. Can the author take a look a that?

https://www.tutorialgateway.org/python-count-list-items/

suggests:

list_name.count(list_item)

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Thanks, got it. I did not notice the tab and didn't even know about that feature. Thanks, I've learned a lot.

Sorry, I'm being dense.

I see results like the below and I don't know what to do w/ it.

0x000000000114000000000000000025AE635C713103400000000000805640138255F5F2BB0740

Did you leave out a step? What do you do w/the results?

It was not so much intended as a criticism as a suggestion. I think this site and its contributors are enormously valuable. I also think a description of a suggested...

Here are some posts that serve as examples to demonstrate how at least a short description preceding code can be helpful.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Miscellaneous/31104/

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Miscellaneous/31292/

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/T-SQL/31274/

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Miscellaneous/31286/