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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Sean Lange wrote:

    Brandie Tarvin wrote:

    Wow. So apparently I learn something new every day with SQL Server. Yesterday, I accidentally learned that if you highlight a section of code in a SSMS query...

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  • Reply To: Code snippets removing line spaces

    Sorry I didn't have a chance to respond yesterday. It was very busy at work.

    But yes, that's exactly my problem. What Sue said and what you posted.

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Yeah, I saw someone post about that one several months ago and I've been using it ever since.

    Previously we'd been doing that in UltraEdit. It was nice to know I...

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Wow. So apparently I learn something new every day with SQL Server. Yesterday, I accidentally learned that if you highlight a section of code in a SSMS query window and...

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  • Reply To: Converting Substring to DateTime - extra eyes please

    Thank you all for your responses. I'm choosing not to go with either of the additional solutions because I'm trying to cut down the code I have rather than add...

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  • Reply To: Converting Substring to DateTime - extra eyes please

    <headdesk>. Wow. How did I miss this?

    SELECT DATEDIFF(hh,CONVERT(DATE,GETDATE(),120),CONVERT(DATETIME,(RIGHT(LEFT(SubDirectory,LEN(SubDirectory)-8),8))))
    + DATEDIFF(hh,CONVERT(TIME,GETDATE()),CONVERT(TIME,(SUBSTRING(Subdirectory,20,2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(Subdirectory,22,2) + ':00.0000000'),120)) AS HrsAged, Subdirectory
    --INTO #PurgeBackups
    FROM #DirTree;

    And apparently I can't bold the changed parts...

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  • Reply To: Converting Substring to DateTime - extra eyes please

    My database is too large. Restoring headers takes far too long for this operation. I need it to be quick. The code above completes in less than a minute.

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    I down voted everything on that post.  None of the people involved including the original poster, the two people that posted the answers, the idiot that edited the original...

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  • Reply To: Creating 1 record in 1 table from multiple records in another table

    Can you please post the DDL for the tables and the sample data? IE, table creates and inserts for the sample data.

    It's mighty hard to read the images you've inserted...

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I don't have a Stack Overflow account, let alone a 50 rep on the site. Since the topic is still open, maybe could someone able to post to the site...

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Annnnnddddd...

    Because I just realized y'all are going to ask.

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35951765/the-metadata-could-not-be-determined-because-every-code-path-results-in-an-error

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Yesterday night, a job failed with a weird error I'd never seen before. I hop onto Google this morning to search for it and find all sorts of interesting responses....

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Does she have a business case for changing the data sources? Or did she just do it because that's what she knows?

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  • Reply To: Connection to Integration Service Failed

    Tim Mitchell wrote:

    You *can* connect using the legacy Integration Services connection in SSMS, but only for packages that are deployed to MSDB. I rarely see packages deployed to MSDB in 2012...

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    From what I understand of the CISSP, the exam is a "lawyers" exam more than it is a "tech person's" exam. That's what makes it so difficult for a lot...

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