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  • RE: Trigger help

    The key thing to remember is that a multi-row insert is a single transaction and your trigger will fire only once for the set of rows, not once for each...

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  • RE: Merge the String Group by Column

    One thing to be aware of when doing this on a large scale is that you have no suitable column to ORDER BY on. Ordering by name will...

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  • RE: Multiple cascade paths

    I'm afraid I really don't understand your question. Could you possibly supply a little more detail? What do you mean by "practical"? Some...

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  • RE: Select SUM MAX Display Person Name

    Here are another couple of CTE-based variations. They may be easier to read and understand. Basically each does a summary query to total the...

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  • RE: String manipulation

    This question is a common one. You can find a lot of different approaches if you will search this site using the keywords "PARSE" and "DELIMITED".

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  • RE: Can I convert a datetime to just a year/month for a group by?

    There are lots of variations that will work.

    Here's another that gives you a six-character string in the format YYYYMM.

    ...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Let's all do the Canadian National Cheer !!

    Gimme a "C"

    eh?

    Gimme a "N"

    eh?

    Gimme a "D"

    eh?

    What's it spell?

    CehNehDeh!!!!

    😀

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I'm just brown-nosing. 😉

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lets not forget to congratulate Steve too.

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  • RE: Dynamically create stored procedures in a database using stored procedure in second database

    Tony,

    It's a good solution because it gets you past the problem of not being able to use a db-qualified procedure name in the CREATE PROCEDURE Statement. I'm not...

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  • RE: Function or procedure?

    An odd fact about inline table valued functions is that you can run inserts, updates, and deletes against them. They really are treated like parameterized views.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I like a little cheese with my whine.

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  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    I refrained from joining in the debate over in The Thread. I agree with you though that a little tech could go a long way at that...

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  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Steve Jones - Editor (6/28/2010)


    vo-confused-erous

    You or the officials?

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  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    vociferous

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