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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Okay Barry, reading about your hospital stay reminds me that I truly have no problems and should quit my bitching. I will say a little prayer for your...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    *POUND*

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    Ow, my head.... where the @#$%# is that spare keyboard!!! :crazy:

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  • RE: Using row results as dyamic columns?

    I didn't lose any sleep over it, but please remember it for the future. There are lots of new and improved techniques between 2005 and 2000. ...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    O Lynn, merciful patron Saint of Patience, tell us where we have failed.

    Have we not asked the OP for data?

    Have we not shown the OP the link to Jeff's article...

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  • RE: Validating Contiguous recs

    Hi again Trudye. What we have here is failure to communicate. The abbreviated schema you sent earlier were fine. ...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    You gotta love it. He passes out a solution that performs faster AND (to me) reads simpler. But no, they still want him to rewrite...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    But Jeff ... What if they'd said "Pretty please, with sugar on top" ?? 😛

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  • RE: clarification on NULL s

    For what it's worth, I saw no difference in the execution plan for your example whether or not a SET or a SELECT is used. Apparently...

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  • RE: Validating Contiguous recs

    Listen to the little green master. Wise he is in the ways of the Forum...

    I love your new avatar too, Lynn. It radiates awesomeness.

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  • RE: clarification on NULL s

    Got it. I was looking at the difference in execution plans, and you example has a compute scalar... which obviously calculates a single value. I...

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  • RE: clarification on NULL s

    Hey Jeffery, thanks for joining in. 🙂

    I will confess to totally overlooking the null set as you illustrated. So let me ask you this question:

    Why does...

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  • RE: Validating Contiguous recs

    Schema are good to have as a start. Now how about some values in those fields, like this?

    declare @A table (id int, name varchar(5))

    insert into @A

    select 1,...

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  • RE: clarification on NULL s

    NULL is the absence of a value in a column for a given row (or a variable), not the absence of a row.

    @@ROWCOUNT is the count of rows returned or...

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  • RE: Validating Contiguous recs

    Hey Trudye 🙂

    Could you please supply us with a little sample data to work with? It really isn't clear from the code you've posted, and would be...

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  • RE: difference between INNER JOIN and Corealted subquery.

    Duplicate post. Reply here.

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