2013-03-25
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Dwain Camps
Double Counting and Sign Reversals
Make the ad-hoc analysis of identifying potentially double-counted or sign-reversed Accounting transactions simple and painless.
2013-01-07
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Departures from Origins and Arrivals at Destinations
A suggested design for creating flight schedules makes querying easy. Includes basic airport and airlines data. Get started now with this tricky query problem.
2012-12-11
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2012-10-02
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Set Up Grouping Intervals for Excel (SQL Spackle)
So you want to group your data for charting in Excel? Here's how, the easy way!
2012-07-31
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2012-07-30
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Generating Non-uniform Random Numbers with SQL
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2012-07-03
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Generating n-Tuples with SQL
An n-Tuple is a combination of values from rows of a table in pairs (2-Tuple) or triplets (3-Tuple), etc.
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Financial Rounding of Allocations
When rounded detail quantities are created by an allocation, often the total must foot back exactly to the allocated amount.
2012-03-19
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Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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