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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Memphis is about 14 hours by car from Orlando....

    ROAD TRIP!!!

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I guess I need to have some BBQ for lunch *today*.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Perhaps a BBQ tour is in order.

    Lynn, I didn't know it was possible to have a BBQ sandwich that WASN'T pulled pork.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Okay.... now the debate shifts to which BBQ place in Memphis.

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  • RE: Query Re-Write to Minimize Logical Reads

    I'm not sure it is necessary because the col2 values come from Table A in the first place.

    However, upon reflection, it is quite possible that other...

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  • RE: Query Re-Write to Minimize Logical Reads

    My reasoning was that he first produces a distinct setof values, then gets a simple count of rows from Table A which have values in that set. However...

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  • RE: Query Re-Write to Minimize Logical Reads

    Without data to test, this is a shot in the dark, but....

    SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT docid) -- docid is primary key of Table A

    FROM [Table A] a

    JOIN [Table B] b...

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    Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
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  • RE: Query Re-Write to Minimize Logical Reads

    I'm not sure, Lutz. I'm reading his code more thoroughly right now.

    He only wants counts of values that come from Table B.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I'm getting to come again this year. How early do volunteers have to arrive?

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    The reaction would have been the same no matter the nationality/citizenship of the developer; "What the $%@#* are you doing to my data!?!?!?!?!?!"

    Answer: $%@#*'ing it up.

    Is $%@#*'ing a...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    The very thought makes me quiver.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - Editor (7/16/2010)


    Kit G (7/16/2010)


    The Dixie Flatline (7/16/2010)


    It was a dark and stormy night....

    As I sat down to write...

    I was quite a sight...

    We could start a rhyme of...

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    Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
    Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    It was a dark and stormy night....

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    Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    declare @DoNothing int

    begin try

    select 1/0 as result

    end try

    begin catch

    set @DoNothing = 1

    end catch

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (7/15/2010)


    I think we've shot past denial and are moving in the direction of outright insanity on this. I'm still reading it because it's like watching a car crash.

    But...

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