Grant Fritchey (9/3/2008)

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Disk operations working the way they do, more spindles is better than fewer. That's at least part of why SAN's (properly configured, propertly maintained, etc.) succeed so well....

rbarryyoung (9/3/2008)

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Matt Miller (9/3/2008)

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That's why you keep seeing the old "the order of processing is not guaranteed" disclaimers on MSDN as to these kinds of...

Your best bet might be to simply pick some sequence of characters that won't ever happen, and use that as your "carriage return". At which point you strip out...

That's why you keep seeing the old "the order of processing is not guaranteed" disclaimers on MSDN as to these kinds of things. Depending on...

Jack just gave you an example for a three-table join - is that what you need? There are...

blandry (8/25/2008)

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Consider...

"Failures are the guideposts on the road to success and every great invention in any arena had to be reached by the trial and error of the failure process."

If...

thelabwiz (8/11/2008)

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"If I could get drivers for the laptop, I'd go back to XP."

I do software development for some niche devices and there are enough glitches with these tools under...

I realize I'm getting to the party late (you know - after Billy spiked the punch and got expelled for mooning the principal), but - isn't the PIVOT syntax available...

rbarryyoung (8/21/2008)

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Adrian Nichols (8/21/2008)

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If you're going to exaggerate, at least do it in style... "Today, I'm going to give 325%, that's right three and a quarter times that of everyone...

John -

It sounds to me that you want to use a Tally table. it will allow you to return the desired amount of rows needed.

Here's a good primer...

Are you SURE that is in fact a blank space on the initial server, and not some non-printing character?

According to Books Online, the len() function....

Returns the number of characters of...

jeffrey yao (8/15/2008)

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To be honest with you, Vivien, whenever I see requirements like

Vivien Xing (8/14/2008)

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* Expertise covering a broad range of specialized skills

* In-depth project management, vendor management, and...

toniupstny (8/15/2008)

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(** adding: in response to Charles **)

Hmmm.... I (re)read the article Jeff pointed to as the follow-up

and frankly did...

By the way - that was a "sure...

Ted Pin (8/14/2008)

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gunna48 (8/14/2008)

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Nice to know I'm not the only martial geek out there. And I agree with Grant sparring with a love body or more is much more stress...