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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (3/31/2011)


    Chad Crawford (3/31/2011)


    Kiara (3/31/2011)


    Hm - I'd love to know which brand it was, since the stuff I've used (albeit on fairly small areas) seemed to work fine....


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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    WayneS (3/30/2011)


    Craig, in your case, I'd have to agree! :w00t:

    Awww, my duckie's pretty good at tech problems. His answer to all my relationship questions though is "Go jump in...


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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    john.arnott (3/30/2011)


    Kiara (3/29/2011)


    I'm going to take a moment and thank you all yet again for help that you didn't know you just provided.

    I just spent about 45 minutes writing out...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Random topic swap: You know, I've always hated sitcoms. I can't stand watching someone doing something with the obvious idiot ball, it's like reality TV for me. ...


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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (3/30/2011)


    GilaMonster (3/30/2011)


    Craig Farrell (3/30/2011)


    Grant Fritchey (3/30/2011)


    GilaMonster (3/30/2011)


    For your amusement, this (attached) was part of a project plan I received today, specifically the test plan....

    And that blank spot is...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: How to do the following (may require correlated sub-query)

    Short and easy form:

    Yes, you want a subquery (not a correlated one) that will go in and find the max() date for each patientID, filtered only on dates after x...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (3/30/2011)


    GilaMonster (3/30/2011)


    For your amusement, this (attached) was part of a project plan I received today, specifically the test plan....

    And that blank spot is where the miracle occurs?

    Nope, notice...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: How to query for number of contiguous historic days where widget count = 0

    freedom_nut (3/30/2011)


    Awesome, Craig, thank you very much!!! You are the only person who seems to have understood my question correctly. I'll now pick it apart so I can...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Poor database design

    Sean Pearce (3/30/2011)


    GilaMonster (3/30/2011)


    I suspect that you may need to get a specialist in (on-site) for a couple of days. I can recommend some good people here. Sounds like it's...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: A Sql statement used for variable purposes in an expression

    stephane.siao (3/29/2011)


    Have you thought about using a stored procedure and passing the variable to it?

    9 month old topic.


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  • RE: SELECT into from linked server stored procedure

    Ah, the old quotes instead of doubled apostrophes... nice catch opc.


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  • RE: Non-performing SQL Query...

    pjlewis (3/29/2011)


    I am trying to execute a sql query (using a stored procedure) to retrieve lookup table data from SQL Server 2008 R2 (using an .asp page) and populate a...


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  • RE: Query to Pull character to the right of a hyphen

    tschuler-738392 (3/29/2011)


    Maybe I should have been more specific or more detailed. Thanks for the reply though.

    This is what worked and returned me what I needed.

    Nah, no test data so...


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  • RE: Output to text file without line feed

    Mark Rice (3/29/2011)


    I need to output the result set of a query to a text file, but each row should only have a carriage return (13) and no line feed....


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  • RE: Query to Pull character to the right of a hyphen

    A quick and dirty solution is to do this:

    RIGHT( REVERSE( cola), CHARINDEX( '-', REVERSE( cola) ) - 1 )


    - Craig Farrell

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