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  • RE: CROSS APPLY VERSUS INNER JOIN

    GilaMonster (1/15/2009)


    Jack Corbett (1/15/2009)


    The APPLY operator is designed for use against table valued functions

    Or (I believe) correlated subqueries in the FROM clause

    Yep.

  • RE: SSIS Loose data from Excel.

    You need to use the IMEX command in the connection string. MSDN has all the details.

    I had the same problem a while back and posted the detailed solution on...

  • RE: how many db's on one server

    It's not really a question of quantity of databases. It's a question of traffic and load vs server capability.

    There's a huge difference between one database being hit by 10-thousand...

  • RE: The Hassles of Travel

    I don't really have a home. I have a place where I live, currently an apartment, but I can't really say I'm tied to it in any way, emotionally.

    I...

  • RE: Best performance Row by row loop (SQL2K)

    Without a cursor or While loop or whatever, you could get that in one pass with something like this:

    create function Cols

    (@Table_in nvarchar(128))

    returns nvarchar(max)

    as

    begin

    declare @Cols nvarchar(max)

    select @Cols = coalesce(@cols + '+isnull(['...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Michael Earl (1/15/2009)


    DavidB (1/15/2009)


    Steve - Should we change the title of this topic to "Are the posters becoming more violent"? 😀

    So far, I haven't seen anything violent. Everyone seems...

  • RE: Timesheets for DBA/DBDs

    Loner (1/15/2009)


    10:15 - messing around on SQL Server Central

    10:21 - help desk ticket #35104

    11:30 - lunch

    12:50 - building view dbo.JoesNewReport

    13:07 - emergency help desk ticket #542138

    13:17 - building view dbo.JoesNewReport

    14:57...

  • RE: Best performance Row by row loop (SQL2K)

    If you actually have to do row-by-row, use a cursor for it. It's what they're built for, and they're good at it. While loops for row-by-row aren't as...

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    I think it's pretty much the same question as "which is better, red or blue?"

  • RE: Inserting TOP X Records

    Staging tables like that work quite well. Yep.

  • RE: Help with parsing XML using OPENXML in sql server 2005

    declare @pFile XML

    set @pFile = '(Your XML string)'

    select @pFile.value('(*:Enroll/Context/@SubmitterUserId)[1]','varchar(100)')

    Result:

    THEUSER

    (Can't post the XML here, but it's a copy-and-paste from your file.)

  • RE: Disabled index mystery

    The default trace should have the command in it that is doing the disabling. That should give you the source.

  • RE: Where 1 = 1

    Jeff Moden (1/14/2009)


    John Dempsey (1/14/2009)


    I'm with you Jeff. I always use BEGIN TRANSACTION when performing a manual delete. I also use it when I am doing an update...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (1/15/2009)


    jcrawf02 (1/15/2009)


    Have I mentioned how much I LOVE all of you, and REALLY APPRECIATE all of your help on the forum?

    (laughs nervously, backs away slowly...)

    Oh now, don't be...

  • RE: Inserting TOP X Records

    If you have a situation where some of the Customer_No values will already be in the target table, and you just have more rows about more stuff with the same...

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