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Talking Technical

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Should IT managers understand technical issues, or is a full appreciation of the technology somehow unworthy and unnecessary for senior staff? In such a rapidly changing industry where fortunes are made and lost by attempting to exploit gaps in the market too thin to see with the naked eye, the answer would seem obvious. However, I have repeatedly come across amazing gaps in the technical knowledge of managers.

2006-05-31

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Generating a Sequential Pattern

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For many of us, working with the identity property allows us to easily generate a sequential series of numbers. But what if you need to generate a sequence according to some pattern, like one that includes the year? New author Asif Sayed brings us a technique and the code for generating a patterned sequence.

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2006-05-17

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Get full name of a person

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Person name may have these combination in database1. firstname only2. middlename only3. lastname only4. firstname + middlename5. firstname + lastname6. middlename + lastnameAnd firstname, middlename, lastname may contain null or empty string in data. but usee want to display Fullname without spaces then how will combine all.

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2007-06-28 (first published: )

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Data Driven Subscriptions in SQL RS Standard

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As many of you know, data driven subscriptions is not a feature available with SQL 2000 RS Standard Edition. However, you can accomplish this using the supplied stored procedure. It may not be as pretty as the version in SQL Enterprise, but this one gets the job done, and it is very ……useful!I have not […]

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2006-11-13 (first published: )

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