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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    If I sounded like my avatar, it would be some kind of klaxon/alarm bell/buzzer/siren/end-of-the world noises. 😀

    By the way, I'm now having to deal with a table named...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Flo: I was being a trifle ironic, maybe even a touch sarcastic. 😉

    Although, I am sorry to say, I have at times written queries containing...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Why shouldn't he put quotes around 'NULL', Alvin?

    'NULL' is a perfectly good word. Isn't it? :unsure:

    BTW, I was also crushed when...

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    Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    You always have the option to avert your eyes and let others assist him.

    They might give him bad advice though.

    He might even take it.

    BTW, if I ever...

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    Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
    Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Hey Lynn:

    He probably learned about SSC early in his academic career, maybe even got hired with the help of SSC, and may get his Ph.D. with SSC assistance as well....

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    Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
    Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills

  • RE: top row number within partition

    I misunderstood, sorry about that. You are wanting to build the values you originally posted.

    A summary query either before or after would give you...

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  • RE: Subquery within Case statement

    Feels good, doesn't it? 😉

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  • RE: Subquery within Case statement

    Um.... yeah..... :w00t: I obviously haven't had enough caffeine this morning.

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    Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills

  • RE: Subquery within Case statement

    What's ridiculous about cutting 25% of the work out? If you can do that with everything that runs on your SQL server, you are doing well.

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    Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
    Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills

  • RE: top row number within partition

    I assume you are partitioning on column 3, and that by "top-ranked" you mean the rows where row_number() = 1.

    I'm changing up the data a bit in the example below...

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  • RE: How to get Table's field name as rows

    Tables have fields???? 😀

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  • RE: Subquery within Case statement

    No problem. Did any of the answers posted work for you?

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  • RE: Subquery within Case statement

    anyone?

    I was waiting for you to post up the samples I requested, partner. 😉

    By failing to do that, you have people guessing at...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    That's cool and sort of lovely, Gail. Thanks for sharing.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Hmmmm.... someone discovered DBCC TIMEWARP.

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