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  • RE: PIVOT

    sestell1 (8/25/2014)


    Does anyone actually use the PIVOT operator?

    I find it so limited that I almost always roll my own using GROUP BY and CASE.

    I like PIVOT because you can use...

  • RE: Single Quotation Marks in SQL

    PS: I’m surprised Celko hasn’t jumped on this thread screeching for even broaching the subject of dynamic sql much less enabling it. I hope he’s okay.:-)

  • RE: Single Quotation Marks in SQL

    1. The outside 2 single quotes delimit the string.

    2. On the inside of the string you must have 2 single quotes for each single quote you are representing.

    I...

  • RE: Making a record set horizontal

    Thank you, Luis. You are the only one to respond so far so I am pretty sure I have posed a "toughie" to the team. Yes, a dynamic...

  • RE: First SQl job were you nervous?

    Worry as a virtue? Guess that qualifies me as a saint.

    Seriously, these comments about worry as an asset from this group of posters is like...

  • RE: Dumb interview answers

    You could hire her as long as you put on the contract that she couldn't fight or break up with her boyfriend for the time that she worked with you....

  • RE: Dumb interview answers

    We developed a test that required applicants to write queries against our proprietary database that would answer a list of specific questions we provided along with which tables to use...

  • RE: need help with complex SSRS report request:

    Something like this?

    Design the spark line as a sub report with the second data set in it and use a parameter for the metricname and it should work and a...

  • RE: Better Writing

    The first point I want to make is that I am amazed at the number of contributors to SSC and Simple Talk that are not only technically brilliant but also...

  • RE: Stairway to T-SQL Part 2: Beyond T-SQL Basics: Level 1: The TOP Clause

    Well done. I much appreciated the review questions at the bottom. I would like to see review questions as a standard for the Stairway and other technical articles.

  • RE: Sabbatical

    Also, there is an excellent exercise in Covey's "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" that I would highly recommend to put you in touch with things that are important to...

  • RE: Sabbatical

    Do the inward journey. Start with something like Siddhartha (the book by Hermann Hesse). Check out some of Joseph Campbell's work (Power of Myth, Hero With a Thousand...

  • RE: Database without ANY primary keys

    Don't we celebrate JC's birthday on the 25th regardless of when it actually is?

  • RE: Database without ANY primary keys

    Where's Celko? I thought he'd be in here administering some kind of beat down based on the title alone. 🙂

  • RE: Data Dictionary

    You can also query information_schema.columns.

    select * from information_schema.columns where table_name = 'YourTableName'

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