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  • RE: T-Sql rant

    Steve Jones - Editor (3/15/2009)


    ...C#, VB, etc. are programming languages designed for working with a variables, of sets of variables in objects.

    How do you realize a result of a query...

  • RE: T-Sql rant

    Michael Valentine Jones (3/16/2009)


    I read through a good bit of your blog the other day, and I have to say that the one question

    it didn't seem to answer was what...

  • RE: remove dup rows within same columns

    Here's an sql solution to leave one row from a pair of 'opposites'.

    create table #t1 (A varchar(10), B varchar(10))

    insert into #t1(A,B) select 'john', 'sainz'

    insert into #t1(A,B) select 'john','candy'

    insert into #t1(A,B)...

  • RE: T-Sql rant

    Steve Jones - Editor (3/17/2009)


    Steve Dassin,

    I haven't complained about the advertising of your product because it's free, and because you've only mentioned it in places where you appear to believe...

  • RE: T-Sql rant

    Lynn Pettis (3/16/2009)


    steve dassin (3/16/2009)


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    To see for yourself visit my blog (for explanations and examples) or check out the system documentation (chm file):

    http://www.geocities.com/d4tosql/D4/Dataphor.zip

    Better yet I invite you to download the...

  • RE: T-Sql rant

    Gift Peddie (3/15/2009)


    Science is a b****, expediency is a w*****. It's not easy to sleep with science. But sql sells itself to even the lowest bidder. It's been screwing developers...

  • RE: T-Sql rant

    foxjazz (3/13/2009)


    Why couldn't they write t-sql more like C# or have a flavored compiler for t-sql so that we could work it like c# or vb depending on how you...

  • RE: How to properly group using SQL

    And true-believers recoil at the thought of a cursor. 🙂

    www.beyondsql.blogspot.com

  • RE: count of consecutive value

    Jeff Moden (2/3/2009)


    I agree with Barry... enjoy the cleverness of the code and the way the author of that code overcame the shortcomings of the language. 😉

    I agree. I appreciate...

  • RE: count of consecutive value

    RBarryYoung (2/2/2009)


    Uh, yeah. Not to intrude on your fantasy lecture here, Steve, but let's throw some actual facts in:...

    1-7

    I obviously was too ambiguous with my use of the term...

  • RE: count of consecutive value

    RBarryYoung (1/31/2009)


    Jeff Moden (1/31/2009)


    Nah... I take it back... not clever... freakin' brilliant. The key to this whole thing is the grouping. You've gotta be able to group each...

  • RE: Exponential Moving Average Challenge

    Lynn Pettis (1/30/2009)


    Amazing how many problems seem to be solved using the running totals approach at times. 🙂

    Yep.

    This was recognized a long time ago by the major sql database venders...

  • RE: records with distinct IDs

    nabajyoti.b (1/28/2009)


    the record that appears first in order

    select emp_id,emp_name,emp_address,rank

    from

    (select emp_id,emp_name,emp_address,

    row_number()over(partition by emp_address order by emp_name) as rank

    from ##emp) as A

    where rank=1

    order by emp_address,emp_name

    emp_id emp_name ...

  • RE: orthogonal relatonships between multiple tables

    beetlejuice (1/27/2009)


    But all of this doesn't sound very 'relational to me.

    I've never heard sound effects emanating from logic:) Lets see what you have so far. If it bleeds you...

  • RE: passing an sql string to a stored proc and concatenating it...

    stephenmbell (1/27/2009)


    My problem is:

    - you cannot pass a variable of type table as an input parameter to a sql 2k5 stored procedure

    - I tried setting it up so...

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