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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I know... otherwise I would never have dared to say that 😉

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  • RE: Optimizing UDF calls in SP.

    Thanks, Gail. Nice to see you back.

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  • RE: LEFT(string, n) for text type ?

    Thanks for letting us know you solved it yourself, Virgil. Don't worry about it. We've all had moments when we overlooked a simple and obvious...

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  • RE: Expanding column length on very large table

    It only takes a second when you are doing something like expanding the maximum size of a varchar field, because none of the actual data rows have to change. ...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    This I gotta see....

    You guys rock, but the vocals are like nails on a blackboard.

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  • RE: Expanding column length on very large table

    Were the rows populated, or did it have nulls in the char(1) column?

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  • RE: Executing stored procedures on Linked Servers

    Try this: EXEC database.schema.procedureName

    If your database is called Reports, and your procedure is dbo.InventorySummary you would use:

    EXEC Reports.dbo.InventorySummary.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Hmmmm party encounters a Spamming Troll...

    Roll 3xd10 for saving throws against annoying misspellings....

    Wizard casts Ancient Programming Languages...

    Elf has shot the food!

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  • RE: SP taking lot of time.

    Anything slower than "instantaneous" is too damn slow, Gus 🙂

    Hey Eswin,

    (1) Please don't post to the "Problems Getting Worse" thread to call attention to your questions. That's...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I am trying to imagine what the forms for RPG.NET would look like.

    The mind boggles :w00t:

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    The joke is REALLY old school. I cut my teeth on RPG II on an IBM System 32 back in the late 1970s.

    So far as...

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  • RE: Inserting a start- and end tag into an xml string

    Old school string manipulation?

    declare @xml xml

    declare @string varchar(max)

    set @xml =

    '

    '

    set @string = cast(@xml as varchar(max))

    set @string = replace(@string,'','')

    set @string = replace(@string,'','')

    set @xml = @string

    select @xml

    OK... Editing here because this is...

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  • RE: Simple query?!

    Subqueries don't make queries horrible 😉 How have you approached the problem?

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  • RE: Issue with Money to Varchar Conversion

    By way of explanation, it appears to be trying to convert the money datatype to the varchar datatype to make the comparison. (Not convert the '0.00' to money.) ...

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  • RE: insert data into 2 tables in a single shot

    One warning about the output clause, it can only contain columns that were inserted into the primary table (and calculated columns based on those columns). It will not...

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