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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    The words 'Mississippi' and 'Tennessee' scare me slightly. Way too many repeated vowels, and a very low score for consonant-diversity!

    Be kind, Paul. I still haven't learned the entire...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Congratulations Paul, on winning the coveted 13K award!!

    I'm thinking we should all agree on November 18th being recognized as Thread Day.

    I'm in Oxford, Mississippi, actually, about an hour south of...

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  • RE: Single Query for getting missing row values based on Date for generating report output

    Hey Paul, what got you onto a recursive kick?

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Speaking of time zones, it's midnight here.

    Goodnight, Paul

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  • RE: Single Query for getting missing row values based on Date for generating report output

    Neither the code nor the execution plan are pretty, but this will get it done.

    No guarantees on scalability, but it's late and I'm off to bed. ...

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  • RE: Choose field to update based on Case; Update first field that matches criteria

    My error. I took the pseudo code too literally. How about just growing the WHEN clauses like this? I know it's tedious to have...

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  • RE: Choose field to update based on Case; Update first field that matches criteria

    First thing you must understand is that CASE is an expression not a statement. All it does is return a value, like a function with IF/THEN logic embedded...

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  • RE: Stored Procedure Parameters with LIKE expression

    You will find yourself getting a LOT of table scans using that approach. It is almost unavoidable given that you are going to be searching for strings LIKE...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Way to go, Unc.... 😀

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  • RE: T-SQL: Why “It Depends”

    Hey Blackhawk:

    The problem he was running into was that the optimizer had no statistics on an indexed temporary table he was joining and so it was making bad choices. ...

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  • RE: Most problems can be solved without resorting to a cursor or while loop

    For the future, if you ever run into an instance where you have to execute a stored procedure multiple times, instead of calling a function, you might also consider dynamic...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    (sigh) Not quite, but close.

    Now I should finish my coffee and get on down to the office. Later, y'all.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    A Elbereth Gilthoniel

    Silivren Penna Miriel

    Enna Aglar Elenath

    Gilthoniel, a Elbereth

    We remember, we who dwell

    In this far land, beneath the trees

    The starlight on the western seas.

    Okay, at least a few aged...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Couldn't find a good elvish translator.

    They really should have one for babelfish. I would also support having a Klingon version so that Alvin can participate. ...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Why am I unsurprised that you would have studied Sindarin, Gail?

    I had a go at memorizing Tolkien's poetry once. (Which I concede is not brilliant, but then I...

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