By far my favorite thing about SSC was the environment of discussion and learning. Unlike the other options where you are only allowed to provide an answer, teaching and...

• This reply was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by  Ed Wagner.

Sadly, I'm one of the many who had the "wind taken out of sails" that Sean and Jeff refer to.

It was, IMO, the absolute best SQL Server forum in the...

Yes... and they're making an big deal about it.  ChatGPT is constantly providing incorrect answers about...

Heh... if I were really smart, I'd just...

Thanks, Steve.  I've been doing that same thing for years to create "character usage histograms" using either a Tally Table or fnTally.  So has Itzik with his...

I have been having the worst time with this website on my work PC for the past 9 months. Couldn't log in (and login screen looked weird). When I...

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by  Ed Wagner.

Same to you, ol' friend.  Glad I got to know you and others from this site.  Missed...

Just in case anyone else is having the issue... I've verified that I'm no longer getting email responses for posts that I've subscribed to or have responded to. ...

Agreed. ...

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by  Ed Wagner.

I wonder if instead of using literal number 8000, you could limit the number of rows in the first CTE

to count the number of delimiters in the string,...

Question for the smart people, and the rest of you.

Would you endorse or get behind the statement: Some deadlocks are healthy. or Some level of deadlocks is healthy.

Or is...

Thank you, kind Sir and thank you and all the denizens of this fine...

Just a quick venting/raging......Entity frameworks using code first is the spawn of the devil himself. It is seriously one of the worst anti-patterns I have ever seen....

For those who haven't seen it...

"I review it".  How long does THAT take?

And why does it need reviewed for "safety" if they don't have the permissions to change anything...