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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Matt Miller (#4) (4/5/2010)

    If you need a gag gift - I think I have a full set of floppies AND manuals for Office 4.3... It only weighs 30 or...

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    April 5, 2010 at 11:35 am

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Alvin Ramard (4/5/2010)

    I don't remember if it was Win 95 or 98, but I remember the 30+ floppies it rode in on.

    I had the floppies for both versions.

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    April 5, 2010 at 11:34 am

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  • RE: very busy disk

    Paul White NZ (4/5/2010)

    I still think it was the virus scanner :rolleyes:

    (joking!)

    Maybe Zenoss had an identity crisis and tried performing virus scans:Whistling:

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    April 5, 2010 at 11:33 am

    #1145899

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Nostalgic yes - But I have found that a bunch of mine were unreadable after several years in storage. I think I still have some, but most were trashed.

    White...

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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    April 5, 2010 at 11:31 am

    #1145897

  • RE: very busy disk

    bagofbirds-767347 (4/5/2010)

    wow. guys, thanks for all the advice. I am feeling pretty stupid right now telling you what actually happened was due to a bug (i am almost...

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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    April 5, 2010 at 11:21 am

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  • RE: Foreign key constraints...WHY??

    Matt Miller (#4) (4/5/2010)

    These are all some of the things that end up on my "caveat" list. As in - don't call me on these types of issues later...

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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    April 5, 2010 at 10:55 am

    #1145865

  • RE: Foreign key constraints...WHY??

    Paul White NZ (4/5/2010)

    An amazing number of places mandate no FKs and NOLOCK on every query...:doze:

    I have seen the NOLOCK far too often and substantially more than the NO FK...

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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    April 5, 2010 at 10:52 am

    #1145864

  • RE: Foreign key constraints...WHY??

    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (4/5/2010)

    Steve Jones - Editor (4/5/2010)

    I'll stand by my "design w/o RI is poor."

    May I substitute the word poor by the word wrong? 😉

    HAHA - I concur.

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    April 5, 2010 at 10:46 am

    #1145857

  • RE: Foreign key constraints...WHY??

    Paul White NZ (4/5/2010)

    david_wendelken (4/4/2010)

    He didn't care if it worked on December 31st, he only cared that it could be announced to work on that date.

    Nice story. I would...

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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    April 5, 2010 at 10:44 am

    #1145856

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - Editor (4/5/2010)

    Didn't w98 will require some DOS boot stuff for setup? Not sure since I stuck with W95 until W2K

    The stuff was still there, but you...

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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    April 5, 2010 at 10:42 am

    #1145855

  • RE: Removing duplicates and keeping 1 record with no PK

    You're welcome.

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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    April 5, 2010 at 10:41 am

    #1145854

  • RE: Data Modeling Question

    You're welcome.

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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    April 5, 2010 at 10:40 am

    #1145852

  • RE: The Missing Certification

    Steve Jones - Editor (4/5/2010)

    I think that any exam can be gamed to an extent, and despite all the efforts put into doctors, we still turn out poor doctors because...

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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    April 5, 2010 at 10:25 am

    #1145840

  • RE: Creating Indices on Temp Tables from Stored Procedures

    Paul White NZ (4/5/2010)

    So...we're saying 'it depends'?

    Actually, to make a serious point for a moment, it is always a trade-off. I do try to write efficient code, and produce...

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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    April 5, 2010 at 10:19 am

    #1145834

  • RE: Removing duplicates and keeping 1 record with no PK

    olie480 (4/5/2010)

    What I do know is that if I have 4 'John Smiths' and if they were all different people, the Address column would be different for each of those...

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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    April 5, 2010 at 10:08 am

    #1145824

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