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  • RE: DBCC Timewarp

    To the ill-illuminated:

    The "jump to the left" quote is from a song in the movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show, which is a fictionalized version of the last days of Dr....

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  • RE: Group all items per ID in one row

    Mark, the problem is that SQL is not the right tool for doing things like not showing the repeated values. It is going to deliver a result...

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  • RE: Group all items per ID in one row

    You can, but if there are going to be a variable number of rows to be converted into columns, you will have to do it using dynamic sql. ...

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  • RE: DBCC Timewarp

    GilaMonster (2/9/2010)


    george sibbald (2/9/2010)


    I've never been more serious in my life. At last I can join in a discussion on an area where I am a real self-appointed expert.

    Expert? Yeah...

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  • RE: DBCC Timewarp

    Oh sweet mercy..... Barry is really my own self from an alternative universe?!

    I feel smarter already !!

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  • RE: DBCC Timewarp

    Can someone give me a plain English explanation of why parameter 242 is designated as being either "dark matter approximate mass" OR "dimensionality (post M-String)" ??? ...

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  • RE: DBCC Timewarp

    No need to get testy, John. After all, this forum is intended to be a chronosynclastic infundibulum.

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  • RE: Table Variable Issue

    One comment: You are finding the Top (x) Distinct values. SQL has to develop that DISTINCT set before it can apply the TOP operator. ...

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  • RE: DBCC Timewarp

    Michael Valentine Jones (2/8/2010)


    Has anyone figured out the parameter sequence to restore a database that doesn’t exist from an alternate timeline where it would have existed if the development project...

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  • RE: DBCC Timewarp

    Of course! The operating system for the Flux Capacitor! But the last I heard, Dr. Brown was off-planet.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I said tempted, Alvin. I'm mischevious, not malicious. 😉

    Like I posted earlier, I don't even attempt offer advice in those kinds...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Gail: I was sooooo tempted.

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  • RE: AutoNumber Column

    But your feet show it ... They're long, fellow.

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  • RE: Check for table EXISTence in SQL '08

    It's odd that Microsoft doesn't use that in DROP/CREATE scripts. I guess they rely on the fact that object names have to be unique.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Put your hands on your hips...

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