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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ant-Green wrote:

    If you're fancying a change of pace the Slack community is forever increasing (https://aka.ms/sqlslack) although that is also again not without its limitations, as there's over 16k people in...

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    So, my personal and heartfelt request as a member of "the community that was", I'd love it if you and JLS (another recent revisitor) and a host of others that...

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  • Reply To: grouping rows into sets

     

    JCelko

    Thanks for your reply....but your coded response does not meet my expected results  (which I posted)

    Other posters have resolved the problem for me.

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  • Reply To: grouping rows into sets

    Thanks Homebrew....

    it was the "trick" CASE WHEN LAG(t_type) OVER(PARTITION BY t_id ORDER BY t_date) = t_type THEN 0 ELSE 1 END AS IsStart that Mark used was the bit I...

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  • Reply To: grouping rows into sets

    Thanks Mark

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    J Livingston SQL wrote:

    Brandie Tarvin wrote:

    I am getting really annoyed with this "link to the post takes me to the second last page of the thread, not the actual post" issue.

    yup  .......

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  • Reply To: Trying to understand parentheses placements

    Never knew about that Jeff......thanks muchly

     

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin wrote:

    I am getting really annoyed with this "link to the post takes me to the second last page of the thread, not the actual post" issue.

     

    yup  .... and the...

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  • Reply To: Trying to understand parentheses placements

    maybe this will help?

    if you paste code into https://www.dpriver.com/pp/sqlformat.htm  (Instant SQL Formatter) by default it breaks the brackets out so it is easy to follow...other formaters are available <grin>

  • This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by J Livingston SQL.

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  • Reply To: Create a delta from downloaded info

    Bruin wrote:

    Was this the info you where looking for?

    Thanks.

    Please provide details of your expected answer based on the demo data provided.....prevents any confusion on my part <grin>

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  • Reply To: Create New Table - Count Columns

    Hi...just wondering why you would want to create a table with just one row from these results?

    Also....what do you want to record when the postcode column is just an empty...

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Well, after a 3 year absence I decided to take another look at SSC........Nice to see a lot of the names I remember still posting.

    Am no longer earning with SQL,...

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  • RE: combining two tables.

    Gordon Barclay - Friday, July 20, 2018 8:35 AM

    Lynn Pettis - Friday, July 20, 2018 8:09 AM

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  • RE: combining two tables.

    Gordon Barclay - Friday, July 20, 2018 7:52 AM

    J Livingston SQL - Saturday, December 16, 2017 10:43...

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  • RE: Data Analysis

    maybe read this https://spaghettidba.com/2015/04/24/how-to-post-a-t-sql-question-on-a-public-forum

    and repost....?

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