• here's a link to a copy of the pdf that doesn't require his damn password.

    boy that pissed me off for some reason.

    oh, and some of his code example references the DECODE function, which is actually an Oracle function.

    SQL would use a CASE statement.

    sqlserver2008r2_cheatsheet_v1-01_unlocked.pdf

    Lowell


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