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  • RE: smart first name matching in TSQL

    Hehe,

    I'm born Flemish, in other words Belgian. There the lower case 'v' in 'Van' means you've got some royal blood somewhere, maybe generations ago. So I'm obviously not in that...

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  • RE: Partitioning in SQL Server 2008

    I especially (dis)like the

    11. Create View [TC_OPERate] As Select * From DLMESQLCLUSPROD.CORE.dbo.OPERate.

    There are a few more of these.

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  • RE: smart first name matching in TSQL

    onixsoft (6/19/2013)


    Yes, I think it will be 2 options: use "smart" first name matching or by last name only

    Even last name won't be accurate. My surname is sometimes spelled in...

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  • RE: smart first name matching in TSQL

    crmitchell (6/19/2013)

    ...the Scottish variant is Iain - both are legal names.

    My apologies 😉

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  • RE: Partitioning in SQL Server 2008

    Stefan Krzywicki (6/19/2013)


    From what you've said, you don't need partitioning, you need a redesign of both the database and the process. Partitioning is hugely complex and not something to be...

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  • RE: how to get name only from these column of enmae from emp table?

    Sean is absolutely right. Have a read through Tom Thomson's excellent series on this site around Normal Forms starting right here[/url]. Then read the follow-up articles on Second and Third...

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  • RE: smart first name matching in TSQL

    And your own name, Alex, lends itself to the same exercise 🙂 (BTW, my oldest son's name is also Alex).

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  • RE: smart first name matching in TSQL

    May I humbly ask why you want to do this in the first place? My first name is Jan, which is both Dutch, Afrikaans and Polish (and probably exists in...

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  • RE: adding line break changes execution plan

    Remember, the query optimizer looks for a verbatimly equal query in the plan cache and will use that if it finds one. Your replacing CRs and LFs changes the query,...

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  • RE: Replacements for cursors

    There's nothing wrong in the CreateProcessTable script, in fact you wouldn't be able to do this in any different way anyhow. Building the column list in the LoadProcessFromTarget script will...

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  • RE: Newbie needs help

    Your problem is that you are adding the number of weeks to the base date of zero (1 January 1900), which happened to be a Monday. Changing your queries to...

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  • RE: Grouping by day on a rollover count

    Well, I'm still not sure whether I understood your requirements correctly, and guessing this is not an exam question (they don't usually get that comlicated) let's give it a bash,...

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  • RE: Grouping by day on a rollover count

    Yes, that's a good effort. However, from that test data I can really not see how you would get to the desired results. Could you please explain the algorithm behind...

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  • RE: Query for Emp Time Logging

    No problem. Glad to hear Wolfgang's query does the thing you want it to do. Just a few more issues. Do your time intervals ever run past midnight? Or is...

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  • RE: ldf file size

    No, it is certainly not the right way to do this. What you should do is take LOG backups every now or so often in between your full backups. Depending...

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