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  • RE: The Three Percent Difference

    SQLRNNR (5/20/2011)

    3% difference? Getting a 5% annual raise would be fantastic. Haven't seen too many of those. 1% is typically the cap at places I have worked.

    The...

    Peter Trast
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    May 20, 2011 at 6:44 pm

    #1328050

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    SQLRNNR (5/20/2011)

    SQLRNNR (5/20/2011)

    bcsims 90437 (5/20/2011)

    SQLRNNR (5/20/2011)

    Passed

    Congrats?

    yup - more to come

    More info

    Congrats!

    Peter Trast
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    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

    May 20, 2011 at 1:27 pm

    #1327939

  • RE: The Three Percent Difference

    Craig Farrell (5/19/2011)

    Interesting discussion....

    I have to go get it.

    Hear, Hear! Well said.

    Peter Trast
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    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

    May 20, 2011 at 10:10 am

    #1327803

  • RE: The Three Percent Difference

    aaron-403220 (5/19/2011)

    The compounding of the incentives sounds really great but most companies will have an upper limit to a salary so you might have a difficult time achieving the 'full...

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

    May 20, 2011 at 10:08 am

    #1327802

  • RE: The Three Percent Difference

    ChazMan (5/19/2011)

    Now, this may sound naive...but do you work hard to get the raise or do you work hard because it is its own reward. Sure, getting a nice...

    Peter Trast
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    May 19, 2011 at 7:38 am

    #1327061

  • RE: STUFF Function

    Upon further research, I found this tidbit:

    "This is not true for all database implementations. In an Oracle RDBMS for example NULL and the empty string are considered the same thing...

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

    May 18, 2011 at 9:00 am

    #1326538

  • RE: STUFF Function

    jeff.mason (5/18/2011)

    Ugh -- they did it on purpose? For God's sake why? It violates all good database protocol? That really needs to be flagged heavily in BOL.

    Yes,...

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

    May 18, 2011 at 8:35 am

    #1326501

  • RE: STUFF Function

    I just keep wondering how I never heard of STUFF in 12 years working with SQL...

    Maybe because people avoid using it for this reason??

    Peter Trast
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    May 18, 2011 at 8:33 am

    #1326497

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Daniel Bowlin (5/18/2011)

    SQLRNNR (5/17/2011)

    bcsims 90437 (5/17/2011)

    SQLRNNR (5/17/2011)

    Brandie Tarvin (5/17/2011)

    SQLRNNR (5/17/2011)

    Ray K (5/17/2011)

    bcsims 90437 (5/17/2011)

    Daniel Bowlin (5/17/2011)

    SQLRNNR (5/17/2011)

    crookj (5/17/2011)

    SQLRNNR (5/17/2011)

    stick

    Shift

    clutch

    hitter

    pinch

    Hmmm, should I spend $60 to take me and my dog to...

    Peter Trast
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    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

    May 18, 2011 at 8:27 am

    #1326491

  • RE: Logshipping

    Thanks for the easy question. It was so easy I was sure it was some kind of trick 😉

    Peter Trast
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    May 18, 2011 at 8:06 am

    #1326472

  • RE: STUFF Function

    I spent more time looking at it.

    SELECT STUFF('Vinay, Vijay, Amit',8,5,NULL)

    is identical result wise to

    SELECT STUFF('Vinay, Vijay, Amit',8,5,'') (those are single quotes)

    I would never have expected that. I would...

    Peter Trast
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    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

    May 17, 2011 at 1:47 pm

    #1326108

  • RE: STUFF Function

    jeff.mason (5/17/2011)

    Burned by what SHOULD be versus what IS.

    Logically, NULL plus anything should be NULL. Period, end of story. NULL means "unknown" and you can't assume that you...

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

    May 17, 2011 at 1:27 pm

    #1326092

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    SQLRNNR (5/16/2011)

    Peter Trast (5/16/2011)

    Brandie Tarvin (5/16/2011)

    crookj (5/16/2011)

    Ray K (5/16/2011)

    WOTD: Rainy day and Monday

    "Always get me down...."

    GAH!

    Is that a word?

    No, just a horrible song... some 70's music is best forgotten. Hey,...

    Peter Trast
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    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

    May 16, 2011 at 2:01 pm

    #1325453

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Brandie Tarvin (5/16/2011)

    Peter Trast (5/16/2011)

    Brandie Tarvin (5/16/2011)

    crookj (5/16/2011)

    Ray K (5/16/2011)

    WOTD: Rainy day and Monday

    "Always get me down...."

    GAH!

    Is that a word?

    No, just a horrible song... some 70's music is best forgotten....

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

    May 16, 2011 at 1:56 pm

    #1325448

  • RE: Page Compression

    SQLkiwi (5/16/2011)

    Peter Trast (5/16/2011)

    The explanation makes plenty of sense. I was just wondering what the threshold is. "Significant" is subjective. I was hoping for a percentage or formula or something...

    Peter Trast
    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)
    Microsoft Design Architect with Alexander Open Systems

    May 16, 2011 at 1:55 pm

    #1325445

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