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  • RE: Remove String from column Post Code Field

    BWFC (9/8/2015)


    SELECT

    ltrim(right(postalcode,charindex(' ',reverse(postalcode),PATINDEX('% %',reverse(postalcode))+1)))

    FROM yourdata

    I've tested this over 14500 county+[space]+postcode combinations and the only ones it didn't work on were cases where there was no space in...



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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Koen Verbeeck (9/8/2015)


    jasona.work (9/8/2015)


    Although, I'd probably get blacklisted for having a rather large profile, Explorer reports it as around 25GB or so (I tend to not purge docs very often...)

    It's...



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  • RE: Remove String from column Post Code Field

    Pack_Star (9/8/2015)


    Hi All,

    I believe that this could be possibly be resolved with a Case Statement?

    The select needs to do the following. If there are three separate strings in the...



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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (9/4/2015)


    Alvin Ramard (9/4/2015)


    SQLRNNR (9/4/2015)


    Alvin Ramard (9/4/2015)


    Sean Lange (9/4/2015)


    Alvin Ramard (9/4/2015)


    Brandie Tarvin (9/4/2015)


    I just came up with the great "customer friendly" metaphor for table contention.

    One business unit wants to know...



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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (9/4/2015)


    Alvin Ramard (9/4/2015)


    Sean Lange (9/4/2015)


    Alvin Ramard (9/4/2015)


    Brandie Tarvin (9/4/2015)


    I just came up with the great "customer friendly" metaphor for table contention.

    One business unit wants to know why production report...



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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Sean Lange (9/4/2015)


    Alvin Ramard (9/4/2015)


    Brandie Tarvin (9/4/2015)


    I just came up with the great "customer friendly" metaphor for table contention.

    One business unit wants to know why production report X was timing...



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  • RE: Can't release space of temdb

    Jeff Moden (9/3/2015)


    sriponraj (9/3/2015)


    Check the connection for temp db by using sp_who2 active. Kill all the connection related to temp db and try to shrink..

    So, if the run you kill...



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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (9/4/2015)


    I just came up with the great "customer friendly" metaphor for table contention.

    One business unit wants to know why production report X was timing out, so I went...



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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ed Wagner (9/3/2015)


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    Alvin Ramard (9/3/2015)


    Jeff Moden (9/3/2015)


    Alvin Ramard (9/3/2015)


    Grant Fritchey (9/3/2015)


    Another funny one today. Provided a DMV and a link to the documentation. I was asked "Is that...



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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (9/3/2015)


    Alvin Ramard (9/3/2015)


    Grant Fritchey (9/3/2015)


    Another funny one today. Provided a DMV and a link to the documentation. I was asked "Is that real?"

    Nope. Just faked out the entire...



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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (9/3/2015)


    Another funny one today. Provided a DMV and a link to the documentation. I was asked "Is that real?"

    Nope. Just faked out the entire MSDN web site to...



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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    If I weren't planning on 2 weeks vacation real soon, I'd be off tomorrow.



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  • RE: The Case for Upgrading

    Eric M Russell (9/3/2015)


    Years ago I was involved in a SQL Server 2000 -> 2005 migration. There was a 3rd party hardware interface application that would not connect to SQL...



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  • RE: Newbie saying Hi

    jasona.work (9/3/2015)


    Just make sure you read "The Thread" from beginning to end...

    There will be a quiz.

    :hehe:

    Memorizing all the parameters of DBCC TimeWarp is something I would recommend not be skipped....



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  • RE: Getting error on 'Gail Shaw' script!!

    ChrisM@Work (9/3/2015)


    John Mitchell-245523 (9/3/2015)


    It's got to be TextData, hasn't it? That's the only string or binary column that's being inserted. Looks like you've captured events in your trace...



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