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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Gail,

    Warren Zevon was a singer/songwriter who died a few years ago. One of his greatest hits was a song called "Werewolves of London", which I just parodied....

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at PASS in Seattle...

    And his code was perfect....

    Ahoooooooooooo

    Werewolves of SQL

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Yet another reason to grant legal entity status to AIs... 😉

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  • RE: Subquery within Case statement

    The logic seems a little more complicated than it has to be. I think you can just use LEFT joins in place of your subqueries and simply...

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  • RE: Nested Stored Procedures

    Sorry to be redundant, kruti 🙂

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  • RE: SELECT AVG() causing arithmetic overflow?

    Think of it this way:

    A place to store the results of the calculation must exist somewhere in memory prior to the calculation. The work doesn't just take place in...

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  • RE: Original Theatrical Release of Star Wars

    The parody was good, but not brilliant. It's probably still out there somewhere.

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  • RE: Original Theatrical Release of Star Wars

    john.arnott (4/30/2009)


    Bob Hovious (4/29/2009)


    ... and of course "I'm gonna hit you with this crowbar until you go away!"

    So, you're telling us that Darth Vader wrote "Catcher in the Rye?";-)

    No, John,...

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  • RE: SQL Query return value in a field if no results found..

    I'm a legend in my my own mind 😉

    Seriously, there are people on this site who know a LOT more about SQL than I do. Remember, in the...

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  • RE: Original Theatrical Release of Star Wars

    ... and of course "I'm gonna hit you with this crowbar until you go away!"

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I saw "Star Wars" on opening night, Lynn. The special effects were astounding for that point in time. One of my college buddies and I drove...

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  • RE: Detect duplicate rows - with a twist

    I'm also going to take a hard look at partitioning the table, but that will require a little more education on my part before I dive into it.

    Word of advice:...

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  • RE: SQL Function : Find ‘X’ Business Days in the Future

    Michael, nobody is saying your baby is ugly. 🙂 Sure you are proud to have it published, but many of us already have calendar tables that...

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  • RE: SQL Query return value in a field if no results found..

    All you need is empty strings with the same column headings as in your original query. The datatypes shouldn't conflict with your original query, because only one of...

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  • RE: SQL Query return value in a field if no results found..

    I loaded your code into Management Studio and the syntax checks out fine in 2005. I suspect the ADP designer just can't handle it, but it should...

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