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  • RE: To cursor, or not?

    There is no need to do a cursor. All you have to do is specify the operation(s) you want to perform to the entire set of rows....

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  • RE: Declaring variables in loops gives unexpected behavior

    Good to know, I suppose, but why are you declaring the variables inside a loop? That seems like an odd practice to me, and I just wondered about...

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  • RE: merge rows

    I was assuming that it would be acceptable to just generate a new table from the old rather than do a series of updates using the result set. ...

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  • RE: merge rows

    The following code will work, assuming the company name is consistent between all rows. For future reference, please include the declare statement and the inserts when you are...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I'm not a Newfie!!! I'm from Nova Scotia.

    Doesn't Newfoundland have it's own time zone?

    It's 27.5 minutes ahead of Nova Scotia or something like that.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    "Newbies?"

    I thought he said "Newfies".... and was talking about Alvin! 😛

    By the way, Steve, I ready the journey/destination reply and thought it was brilliant.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    At least he put it in the Hardware section of the Forums....

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I'm not a number, I'm a free man !!!

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Spam emails: The preferred method of getting your questions moved to the head of the line when URGENT isn't working for you. I'm not even the target...

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  • RE: URGENT: Question about merge and hash JOIN

    "FELLOW experts???"

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    And that would be to see if they also said: "Please hurry"?

    We should test that:

    SET STATISTICS TIME ON;

    SELECT "Urgent! Please hurry!"

    SET STATISTICS TIME OFF;

    Hmmmm.... on my laptop it reduces...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Now if they had said "Help me with this, please, Expert." that would have been another matter entirely. 😉

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Visions of William Shatner in Airplane II: The Sequel.

    I thought it was Lloyd Bridges.

    Bru: Lynn is correct.

    If I post something that seems odd, assume that...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    This isn't the right thread for technical questions. I'd move it to one of the usual forums.

    No.... that's just what they'll be expecting us to do..... :smooooth:

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  • RE: Having trouble with recursive CTE query...

    Is it stopping early or skipping levels of ancestors? Possibly a join isn't finding a match? We'd need to see source data in all the tables...

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