Dobe,

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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....

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...

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. ...

GilaMonster (2/9/2010)

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Expert? Yeah...

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

I feel smarter already !!

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)" ??? ...

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

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

Michael Valentine Jones (2/8/2010)

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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...

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

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

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

Gail: I was sooooo tempted.

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

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.