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  • RE: Searching for case sensitive data

    Hey Jack:

    I think we're on the same page. I would never advocate that front-end editing be abandoned in favor of ONLY bouncing errors back from the server, but...

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  • RE: cumilative totals?

    1. You're posting it into Excel? Why not just do the running total's there? It takes about two seconds!!

    2. Although cross-apply works,...

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  • RE: t-sql help

    To find similar threads where this question has been discussed, search SSC on the following keywords:

    PIVOT

    CROSSTAB

    You do need to know the values you are going to turn into...

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  • RE: cumilative totals?

    I know of no technique that can produce running totals without using a temporary table. Essentially, you do an update assigning a variable value to a column to...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I'm right there with you, Gus.

    By the way, Grant, you made a typo... it's "Night of the Living Thread."

    Oh yeah... and "Shawn of the Thread." Hilarious. Made...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    PorkChopMan vs. the Son of the Bride of the Thread?

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    How could I have forgotten "Bride of the Thread?"

    I LOVED Kate Beckinsale in the last remake. 😛

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    if the THREAD starts to approach 5000 posts, I'm going to hunt it down & kill it

    Somewhen in the robotic apocalyptic future they are assembling a Threadinator with...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    This is like following a chain of B-Movie horror films...

    First there was.... "The Thread".

    Then came the "The Son of Thread".

    Future Titles

    The Other Thread

    Revenge of The Thread

    Return of the Son of...

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  • RE: Searching for case sensitive data

    Do you mind posting the link to this thread. I must have missed it.

    Here you go. Flo stirred up quite a debate by identifying a situation where...

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  • RE: Searching for case sensitive data

    Somehow users managed to input some of the customer order numbers as lower case

    Looks like they tried and failed, Jack. The counter-argument would be that if that...

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  • RE: Find out columns included into a index

    Do you have SQL Server Management Studio? If so, use the Object Explorer to drill down to the indexes on your table, then right-click on the index you...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Barry, ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It was a standard promulgated by the American Standards Association, which was a predecessor organization to ANSI.

    See Wikipedia.

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  • RE: Searching for case sensitive data

    You're welcome, Ron. Hope we didn't overwhelm you with detail. 😉

    These sidebar discussions often go into way more minutiae than is required...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    If I'm not mistaken, ASCII and Unicode are both ANSI standards, but I didn't want to add that level of complexity to the explanation.

    EBCDIC !!!

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