Sanity? Oh Sanity? Where are you hiding?

I've had it. Enough is enough! When are people gonna stop hiring people that don't have a clue about they're hired to do?...

GilaMonster (7/8/2015)

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Sure.

"Describe to me the last high-availability implementation you did. What technology did you use and why?...

Staying away from Ask SSC today. Sanity seems to be more stable. :hehe:

LSAdvantage (7/8/2015)

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Am I the only dummy that doesn't look stuff up before answering? I have been going about this all wrong trying to "test" myself! 😀 I...

Jeff Moden (7/8/2015)

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Orlando Colamatteo (7/7/2015)

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Your argument against XML, JSON, even CSV with delimiters available on a 101 keyboard rings very similar to the assembler programmer that used to sit down...

Call it obvious if you want, but when I posted this, only 74% got it right.

I doubt there's data type changes that would make it hard to move this to SQL2008.

I agree with Sean. I'd focus on getting as much of the logic out of...

Ed Wagner (7/8/2015)

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Regarding SQL Saturdays, if your user group doesn't announce the ones coming to your area, then they probably should start. If you want the information directly from...

Your first query was getting the count of distinct Incident_id, while your second query was getting distinct combinations of Incident_id and policy_name. Surely you can see those two are not...

Jeff Moden (7/3/2015)

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Phil Parkin (6/2/2015)

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P Jones (6/2/2015)

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We do lots of csv import and have found that | isn't a good delimiter character as it can easily be mistyped into data...

Ed Wagner (7/7/2015)

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andrew gothard (7/7/2015)

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"the robot had...

faulknerwilliam2 (7/6/2015)

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Hello

A date field in a report returns the date value as:

2015-07-01 13:30:27.000

Is there any way I can script this to appear as:

01 July 2015 (or 01-07-2015 or 01/07/2015) ...

BallaKet (7/5/2015)

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Hello!

I created a new job that keeps on failing with the following message:

"xp_create_subdir() returned error 161, 'The specified path is invalid.'". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query,...

Brandie Tarvin (7/6/2015)

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Sanity?

What is this thing you speak of? Define it in simple terms,...

New question: Is the sanity of those trying to answer posted questions getting worse?

Mine sure is! :hehe: