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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Sean Lange (2/11/2015)


    BWFC (2/11/2015)


    It's funny. When it snows in my area (usually get 1 snow/ice storm per year, of no more than 4 to 6 inches), we get all...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ed Wagner (2/10/2015)


    Sean Lange (2/10/2015)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/10/2015)


    Supposed to be 50s the next week. Getting warmer in the mountains as well, which sucks. Supposed to ski this weekend.

    You...

  • RE: merge/flatten overlapping Time ranges. In order.

    You may want to take a look at the below. This is a "Gaps and Islands" problem. The below is designed around a numeric gap, but can be...

  • RE: Performance of the SQL MERGE vs. INSERT/UPDATE

    Andy DBA (2/6/2015)


    Thanks Kevin and Sean for the informative links. After reading them I'm actually less concerned about using MERGE for copy forward operations.

    I apologize for not posting sample...

  • RE: Duplicates

    The explanation is not correct. We do not want all rows except for Jones on 2008-04-01. We want all where cnt > 1. This will remove 1...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    dwain.c (1/27/2015)


    Brandie Tarvin (1/27/2015)


    WayneS (1/27/2015)


    Brandie Tarvin (1/27/2015)


    Excuse me while I stand over in my corner gloating that I figured something out all by my lonesome without looking anything up. YES!

    Congrats...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    BrainDonor (1/27/2015)


    Sean Lange (1/23/2015)


    Oh the cursors are unbelievably stuipd. They are used to count!!!

    set @Counter = 1

    while exists(select * from StupidlyLargeHeap (nolock) where someColume = @Counter) begin

    ...

  • RE: Healthcare / Medical sample database?

    As someone with quite a bit of experience (8.5 years) in the Healthcare Industry in software development and databases, I can tell you that both Luis and Lynn are 100%...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    EF/LINQ/Hibernate all have their place. The primary place* for them is to SELECT from a VIEW with limited columns (and no VARCHAR in the WHERE clause!). Anything more...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Sean Lange (12/1/2014)


    Matt Miller (#4) (12/1/2014)


    Ed Wagner (11/25/2014)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (11/25/2014)


    Ed Wagner (11/25/2014)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (11/24/2014)


    Jeff Moden (11/24/2014)


    Evil Kraig F (11/24/2014)


    Jeff Moden (11/24/2014)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (11/24/2014)


    Just a quick question to "the thread", am...

  • RE: Logical Query Processing order

    Either they fixed it or something because now options 1 and 4 are different.

    Option #1: FROM,ON,JOIN,WHERE,GROUP BY,HAVING,CUBE | ROLLUP,SELECT,DISTINCT,ORDER BY,TOP

    Option #4: FROM,ON,JOIN,WHERE,GROUP BY,CUBE | ROLLUP,HAVING,SELECT,DISTINCT,ORDER BY,TOP

  • RE: Why do they not listen?

    Eric M Russell (9/30/2014)


    GilaMonster (9/30/2014)


    Eric M Russell (9/30/2014)


    So, if a DBA removes an end user from the DBO role in the process of performing a migration to the next release...

  • RE: Testing in Production

    Shall I make the obvious comment? "Safari can't crash, Apple engineers it to be bullet-proof" (yes, I've actually heard a fanboi say that).

  • RE: Backup Database Full Job fails but backs up all 49 User databases.

    Can you access the DB? If the Log is unavailable the DB may also be.

    I'm sure someone with more experience can chime in... but it sounds like a bigger...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Koen Verbeeck (9/17/2014)


    Since we're all talking about BBQ:

    has Weber any kind of popularity in the USA?

    the 2 biggest sellers at the local hardware stores/walmarts are Grillmaster and Weber.

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