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  • RE: GETDATE Exspression

    Have you tried replacing every occurrence of GETDATE() by (GETDATE()-1) ?

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    bitbucket (2/13/2009)


    shhh tell no one, but heck it was better than using a slide rule to do the calculations.

    I still have my slide rule and can even remember how to...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    David Webb (2/13/2009)


    Most of the DBA folk I have worked with came from non-computer science educational backgrounds. Our current DBA at my place of employment is a cartographer by...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    bitbucket (2/13/2009)


    His presentation was on scripting a routine which would convert a character field (standard character set not the extended character set) to all upper case characters. Further the...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Michael Earl (2/13/2009)


    I've always preferred someone with common sense and troubleshooting skills and wants to work over someone with a pile of certifications and lots of letters after their name.

    I've...

  • RE: Complicated Comments

    Jesse McLain (2/13/2009)I agree with your admonition against reinventing the wheel, as Windiff does a great job. But my original intention was to provide quantitative matching results, not necessarily the...

  • RE: Customize "Active Threads"?

    I was looking to add more topics per page.

    The situation I often find is that there are quite often 2 or pages of active items since last visit. I skim...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (2/13/2009)


    Not saying this is true of all PhD's, but many of the ones I have met seemed to have lost one very important thing, common sense. Is...

  • RE: Troublesome Update statement

    eseosaoregie (2/13/2009)


    The inner join produces a dataset with 98000 or so records. Consequently,logically I would expect 98000 records to be updated. However only 23000 records are updated.

    This is the flaw...

  • RE: Validate Date format during data conversion

    I'd suggest extracting the columns as a string and using a Derived Column Transformation with a suitable expression to check for a null value or otherwise validate it.

    The first example...

  • RE: A fun SQL bug

    As I understand it, SQL server is first evaluating the CASE statement, without looking at what it's going to be used for. CASE

    WHEN TestStr = 'False'...

  • RE: Complicated Comments

    Regarding your problem of stored procedure comparison, Windiff is still available (just Google "windiff download", one of the places is Microsoft) so I'd have just used that (and regularly do!).

    Of...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Alvin Ramard (2/11/2009)


    I'm pretty much like GSquared just said, but I have 1 thing to add.

    How much information I'm ready to pass on also depends on how busy I am...

  • RE: sql server files showing as just files

    DBA (2/11/2009)


    it is unchecked, also for my other Dbs, the extension do show correctly except for this one. .. :crying:

    Sorry, I missed this extra information.

    Since your other database are shown...

  • RE: sql server files showing as just files

    I would think that your registry has lost (or more likely never had) the file association registry entries for .mdf, .ldf and .ndf (for example, in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT). Since these are...

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