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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (11/9/2009)


    ...

    Best thing was showing up late to Buck Woody's session, in a kilt. I sat up front... Sharon Stone was mentioned... 'nough said.

    BWAHAAHA!!! OMGROFL! :w00t:

  • RE: ssis and ssrs interview questions

    Jeff Moden (11/3/2009)


    malli.chitturi (11/2/2009)


    Its not about memorizing the Q&A. Its about SQL is easy to Learn but hard to master. So Its just helping what part of SQL they have...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Alvin Ramard (11/2/2009)


    Lynn Pettis (11/2/2009)


    Thought this one was interesting. Basically, I found this neat code and I would like someone else to port it to SQL Server for me.

    I'm...

  • RE: SERVICE_BROKER_TRANSMISSION_WORKTABLE Error

    Do you use DB Mirroring or DM Mail on that instance?

  • RE: Just For Fun: An Impossible Delete

    JLSSCH (11/2/2009)


    One final update to my solution. Using CTE's, the output query is much easier to understand.

    CTE's also are not avaialble in SQL Server 2000.

  • RE: Just For Fun: An Impossible Delete

    JLSSCH (11/2/2009)


    Thanks for your comments. The following modified solution works when you use the row_number() function to number the rows in an output query.

    ROW_NUMBER() makes it easy. However,...

  • RE: Just For Fun: An Impossible Delete

    Wanderlei Santos (10/30/2009)


    I know this is an old article, and maybe someone already offered this solution, but to be honest the comment list is just too long for me to...

  • RE: Just For Fun: An Impossible Delete

    BlackHawk-17 (10/30/2009)


    What a great thought experiment! :smooooth:

    It was fun to watch the problem solving unfold and the answer develop.

    These are the articles that keep me coming back.

    Thanks a ton...

  • RE: Just For Fun: An Impossible Delete

    Tom Garth (10/30/2009)


    Thanks for the thought provoking article R, and 5 stars for a good read!

    I've used the Temp In-Place method in the past. Sometimes to fix my own...

  • RE: Just For Fun: An Impossible Delete

    sjimmo (10/30/2009)


    Brings back many fond memories, or nightmares back then. Excellent article, which has the opportunity to not only show alternatives to how we do things now, but also provides...

  • RE: Just For Fun: An Impossible Delete

    arms.dan (10/30/2009)


    Your off-hand comment about naming the field "Gender" rather than "Sex" piqued my curiosity. Why? As I understand the words, sex means biological differences: chromosomes and sexual organs. Gender...

  • RE: Just For Fun: An Impossible Delete

    jghali (10/30/2009)


    Funny how this article just came out today... I was actually on a similar thread last week and someone came up with a great solution...

    My personal opinion the...

  • RE: Just For Fun: An Impossible Delete

    skjoldtc (10/30/2009)


    Thanks for the memories. A time when storage and memory was rare and expensive and you had to really know how the guts of the operating system, disk system,...

  • RE: Just For Fun: An Impossible Delete

    Stephen.Richardson (10/30/2009)


    ...

    -- Step 1 Get list of only DUPLICATE rows

    INSERT INTO xSource (Name, Age, Sex)

    SELECT '~'+Name, Age, Sex FROM xSource GROUP BY Name, Age, Sex Having COUNT(*) > 1

    The problem...

  • RE: Just For Fun: An Impossible Delete

    honza.mf (10/30/2009)


    Phil Factor (8/5/2008)


    Surely this is the simplest solution? (be warned of a nasty catch when creating these 'quirky updates'. the order of execution of the update is -variable assignments...

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