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  • RE: Dynamic Order by - is there any way to sort Dates correctly

    Nope. I went and looked at it. It got kicked back here.

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  • RE: Turn rows into columns and calculate increment values

    Ramesh, I don't believe he has to worry about that. If he first does a crosstab or pivot as Jack suggests, he can just do calculations using...

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  • RE: Check for table EXISTence in SQL '08

    1. You could expressly create the table with a schema-qualified name ([dbo].[tablename]).

    2. Testing IF OBJECT_ID(N'table') IS NOT NULL is a common test for file existence. To...

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  • RE: DBCC Timewarp

    Jeff, is that new in 2008, or would it work for 2005 as well?

    If memory serves, parameter one is PI to 8k decimal places.

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  • RE: Table Variable Issue

    You got me, Jeff. Me and table variables were just a summer thing, y'know. That said, any time someone has the ah-hah! moment that execution...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    How the @#%&^#! do I go back and find the original posts? It's vital if are to avoid disrupting the space/time continuum. I know...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I loved the touch of Ella, bb.

    Wayne, and anyone else, I've taken the liberty of creating a forum specifically for DBCC TIMEWARP here.

    "SSC ... it's not a cult. ...

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  • RE: Table Variable Issue

    None of the three execution plans attached to your last post use the temp table. All three use the table variable. The first and...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I am sending a rock to St. Lynn, who can cast the first stone at Alvin, before a Threadinator is sent from the near future.

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  • RE: Dynamic Order by - is there any way to sort Dates correctly

    One additional note. If you are dealing with integers instead of date strings, casting/converting integers as varchar will not give the expected ORDER BY results because the...

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  • RE: Table Variable Issue

    One of the differences between table variables and temp tables is that no statistics are kept on table variables, while statistics are kept on temp tables. In...

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  • RE: NULL & 'NULL'

    For more fun.....

    declare @t1 table (id1 int identity(1,1) primary key, [null] varchar(20))

    insert into @t1 values('Null')

    insert into @t1 values(null)

    insert into @t1 values(default)

    declare @t2 table (id2 int identity(11,1) primary key, [null] varchar(20))

    insert...

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  • RE: Functions

    Mum's the word.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    This remembers me when I attended High school and Slash (Guns and Roses guitarist) died something like once a week...

    Gianluca, I just saw Slash on TV the other night. ...

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  • RE: Functions

    Thanks Paul. I really do have to get on the CLR train, don't I? I will get to it right after I rewrite all...

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