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  • RE: find the position of the charcter in delimited string

    Friday afternoon fun with Tally tables! I decided to go the table route rather than a single variable route (As the original post seems to indicate that he needs...

  • RE: Character's position frm a string

    Take a look at this article[/url] written by Jeff Moden. About halfway through the article there is an example doing exactly this.

    If you get stuck or have questions, post...

  • RE: Storing Saved Report Data

    Having the data gives you a lot more options. Just throwing out a couple ideas of things you could do with it in that case:

    Set up an a scheduled...

  • RE: EAV Design Questions

    After I:

    º Restructured the tables multiple times to avoid dynamic SQL

    º Wrote some of the queries

    º Planned out a system to dynamically generate forms via the website for this variable...

  • RE: EAV Design Questions

    In sitting here trying to justify the existence of this field with an example, I think I've decided that it's something that really shouldn't be done. I was primarily...

  • RE: EAV Design Questions

    RBarryYoung (8/15/2009)


    You might also consider using the sql_variant data type. This is after all what it was intended for.

    Sounds like a plan. Thanks Barry.

    Any comments from anyone on...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I think this is the longest thread I have ever seen. I read page 1 and page 248.

    As to whether or not the posts have gotten worse,...

  • RE: EAV Design Questions

    Thanks for the input Matt. Unfortunately, I don't believe we'll ever get past the point where this is a temporary answer. My circumstances require this level of fluidity....

  • RE: Deleting duplicate records without adding identity col

    I think you're going to need some sort of uniquely identifying field in your base table so that you can isolate rows for deletion. It doesn't need to stay...

  • RE: Storing Saved Report Data

    To answer the question of storing aggregates vs. storing all the data, you simply have to answer another question: Is the ability to drill down or get more information...

  • RE: EAV Design Questions

    Updated the original topic again with additional information about some constraints on this project.

    If anyone feels that there is a better solution to this 'opportunity' than my EAV...

  • RE: EAV Design Questions

    It always does =).

    I updated the first question in the actual post.

    As to the second, the information mainly be queried in two different ways.

    The first would be just...

  • RE: Totally confused by query behavior and plan

    Jeff Moden (2/9/2009)


    Garadin (2/8/2009)


    Is it good practice then to add all criteria to the derived tables instead of the outer query? Guess that makes more sense overall anyways.

    I hate...

  • RE: Totally confused by query behavior and plan

    Jeff Moden (2/7/2009)


    Garadin (2/7/2009)


    This may not be what was happening here, but I had a somewhat similar issue on Friday using nested derived tables. It made me ask a...

  • RE: Totally confused by query behavior and plan

    I think I could. The problem is, the estimated showed no issues at all, and the actual either ran in milliseconds or I had to kill it after a...

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