Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/6/2015)

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Matt Miller (#4) (1/6/2015)

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It's the classic misinterpreting of the data: even qualified individuals fall into the trap so amateurs (e.g. HR) will more likely...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/6/2015)

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jay-h (1/6/2015)

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It makes little difference whether it's the insurance company or the employer doing it. Essentially financial leverage is pressuring invasion of private lives. It...

Andy Warren (1/5/2015)

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Matt, wellness plans are an interesting example, and one that bothers me more. Retention (or firing) is part of what a company does to succeed, I can see...

jay-h (1/5/2015)

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Iwas Bornready (1/5/2015)

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Our company does an review by all employees (every other year) as to how we are doing as a company, issues, problems, highlights, etc. The company then...

Perhaps I am blessed, but I am making more as an employee now than I did as a consultant and am doing things I fundamentally enjoy. It's not to...

I am feeling silly. There's a much simpler implementation, but I basically never use this function.

The trick is to leverage the NTILE aggregate function rather than ROW_NUMBER. In...

djj (12/17/2014)

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Matt Miller (#4) (12/17/2014)

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All right - the requirement is a bit different than initially read.

Since you're trying to get a groups bottomo 25% - I think you're looking at...

Ed Wagner (12/17/2014)

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Grant Fritchey (12/17/2014)

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WayneS (12/17/2014)

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Jeff Moden (12/17/2014)

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Koen Verbeeck (12/17/2014)

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Brandie Tarvin (12/17/2014)

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Brandie Tarvin (12/16/2014)

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WHOO! #HappySnoopyDance

I just spent 2 & 1/2 days reworking a package and its supporting tables / stored...

All right - the requirement is a bit different than initially read.

Since you're trying to get a groups bottomo 25% - I think you're looking at something like the following:

with...

djj (12/16/2014)

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Marcus Farrugia (12/16/2014)

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Ok, I want the bottom 25% value of the 'Value' column, broken up by MainGroup ideally broken into 4 quarters.

IF OBJECT_ID('TempDB..#mytable','U') IS NOT NULL

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Gary Varga (12/12/2014)

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I love citizen programmers. They are can do kind of people and just want to make their job easier. What I dislike is when citizen programmers use professional...

sqldriver (12/9/2014)

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Their one...

Ed Wagner (12/10/2014)

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I just had a window of a few minutes where the /Forums application served out a .NET error screen. It didn't tell me anything specific about the...

As much as I see the issue blandry brought up continuously these days - it's really not about "human judgment", but about personal skills. Not having those basic skills...

Not where I thought this would go, but hey - they're YOUR christmas cards.

As to the question - I was 8 at the time that stunt was published, though...