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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - Editor (2/17/2010)


    Not sure what happened, working on a timewarp restore now, as soon as I can get the pwd from IT

    What? It's not "vanilla"?

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - Editor (2/16/2010)


    I want an dolphin to take me away from all this, ride the waves and chase the sun.

    Is this your way of saying you're coming down...

  • RE: Why is this stored procedure not working for 2/15/10?!

    Good find, Bit. The link has an extra close-bracket. Here it is without...

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Advanced+Querying/anniversary/496/

    As I posted last night, I do recall a more recent discussion thread on this as...

  • RE: Why is this stored procedure not working for 2/15/10?!

    I'll echo BitBucket's advice to post formatted test data with expected results.

    But meanwhile, it seems likely to me that the approach of trying to calculate the age as of...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    And now I read a bit farther and see that you're not Malaysian at all (sorry). But being from Kerala would explain any peppery comments you threw at me,...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Roy Ernest (2/12/2010)


    You all go french, I will go malayalam. (My language) ... 🙂

    Merry and Mary... Not much difference... 🙂

    Now, remember here we talk Ingelish-lah.

  • RE: SELECT setter

    sknox,

    What difference does it make? At the end of the day, answering a good QotD correctly only gives you two things:

    1. A better understanding of SQL / SQL Server.

    2. An...

  • RE: What is this?

    Richard M. (2/12/2010)


    ... Usually the proportion of correct answers vs wrong ones in the QotD is better (unless the question is flawed of course)...

    or the answer cannot be determined...

  • RE: Subquery Help - LIKE expression ignored?

    It seems likely that either FTSCHEDULE.Patient_Number or CRMDatabase.UFT (or maybe both) are character datatypes (char, varchar, nchar, or nvarchar). If so, and the values that your query is comparing...

  • RE: SELECT setter

    I'm proud of my wrong answer ("NULL") as it shows I thought it through, even if incorrectly, before triying the script in SSMS. <rant on> I can't imagine that...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    CirquedeSQLeil (2/10/2010)


    RBarryYoung (2/10/2010)


    Steve Jones - Editor (2/10/2010)


    Barry,

    That response reminded me of the Super Bowl ad with everyone smacking the backs of people's heads.

    which one was that? I can't seem...

  • RE: Curiouse View to create for SQLServer 2005

    Chad Crawford (2/10/2010)


    I got it right, but for the wrong reason. Is it my imagination or is the UNION ALL in the wrong spot? Shouldn't it go...

  • RE: DBCC Timewarp

    GilaMonster (2/9/2010)


    CirquedeSQLeil (2/9/2010)


    GilaMonster (2/9/2010)


    george sibbald (2/9/2010)


    I've never been more serious in my life. At last I can join in a discussion on an area where I am a real self-appointed...

  • RE: DBCC Timewarp

    mehmetburak.akkus-832492 (2/9/2010)


    hi guys 🙂

    is there a full description or a white paper for this command ?

    Mehmetburak,

    Full-spectrum reflectance writing surfaces are extremely dangerous when combined with discussion of this topic....

  • RE: DBCC Timewarp

    Steve Jones - Editor (2/8/2010)


    Just starting to investigate this command. Does the setting of "cosmic string count" on the server have any effect?

    Yes. It essentially determines the domain in the...

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