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  • RE: More Unicode

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/6/2016)


    Apologies for marking the wrong answer.

    Points have been awarded back to everyone as of now.

    Sooo .. "thank God it's Friday" ?

  • RE: More Unicode

    Toreador (5/6/2016)


    This is a disgrace I demand you give me the points that have been stolen from me in fact I want double points as compensation for the distress caused...

  • RE: Promoting Engineers

    Exactly what does upper management seek when choosing a mid-level manager?

    If they only seek a suit to act as yes-man pushing down the ladder decisions made from high up it...

  • RE: Promoting Engineers

    Ian Elliott (5/1/2012)

    I'm now back to being a support person again and have been pretty much told that I'll be in this role for the foreseeable future and that there...

  • RE: Brute Force data search tool

    Yup, in a database designed by a third party, where some user added fields are labelled with a non human-significant (meaningful) name and filled with non-human significant uniqueidenitifier values, finding...

  • RE: Why STUFF

    Marcia J (5/5/2016)


    One advantage of looking at the question a day late. The STUFF had been stuffed in before I looked at the question.

    :-D:-D:-D!

  • RE: Why STUFF

    Forget "back points".

    Those who got the right answer in spite of the defective code are entitled to BONUS points.

  • RE: Replacing trademark symbol (™) in a varchar column

    Does this help you ? It works on my machine.

    DECLARE @s-2 varchar(10) = CHAR(153);

    INSERT INTO Table_1 (sometext)

    SELECT @s-2 UNION ALL

    SELECT '1' UNION ALL

    SELECT @s-2...

  • RE: Why STUFF

    Lynn Pettis (5/4/2016)


    edwardwill (5/4/2016)


    I'd no more ask this person to administer my database than I'd ask Donald Trump to run my country.

    Wow, you have your own country? Must be...

  • RE: Why STUFF

    Ed Wagner (5/4/2016)


    Lynn Pettis (5/4/2016)


    Do this so many times I didn't catch that the STUFF function was missing. Got it right without it there.

    Right there with you. The...

  • RE: Storing encypted SSN's

    For "older" social security numbers, the range is LESS than the theoretical 1 billion numbers.

    According to Wikipedia, the US Social Security Number does NOT include a check digit dependent upon...

  • RE: Brute Force data search tool

    I came up with a similar tool when trying to understand the structure of a database. Mine counts the number of occurrences of the searched item for each column in...

  • RE: Using reserved words as column names

    Luis C.

    Could not repress a smile when I saw you dropping the bloody database at the end ...:-)

  • RE: Using reserved words as column names

    This thread has gotten so out of hand.

    Can't we just have fun once in a while ? Being serious 100 % time - bleh !

    I am curious to see how...

  • RE: Using reserved words as column names

    Can't help myself.

    I am calling out every one to push this even further down the road.

    Have we reached bottom yet ?

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