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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I wonder if you guys feel asleep with your faces resting on the keyboard....

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  • RE: how to compare values in t-sql 2005

    I hope this helps. There is a faster way to do this with a single UPDATE to @Results but there are some issues with that approach I am...

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  • RE: Searching for case sensitive data

    Just share it with the entire thread and I'll read it.

    Like Jeff, I'm now thinking that I will have to learn to code CLR in self...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Bob, did you notice? We should hit 3500 posts soon!

    I'm not going to get all excited again until we are approaching 5K 🙂

    I've been trying...

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  • RE: Searching for case sensitive data

    Is there a way to update a group of records such as all "cqs%" to become "CQS%"?

    Keeping it simple....

    UPDATE sometable

    SET someColumn =...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Oh good. People keep using that word and I get paranoid.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Are you talking about me Lynn? :ermm:

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Tendenzwende (a shift in the Zeitgeist);

    A change in the weather

    Is known to be extreme.

    But what's the use of changing

    Horses, in midstream?

    I can change, I swear....

    - Bob Dylan

    Also.... Lynn...

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  • RE: max date help please

    Hey TW:

    I'm glad to be of assistance. 🙂

    Let's use your posted results as sample data. All you have to do is this. Anyone can cut and...

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  • RE: max date help please

    Give this a try. I obviously couldn't test it without you providing some test data, but I think it's what you're looking for. In the future,...

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  • RE: How to convert column value to fields.

    You can even think about using PIVOT table on Table2 to convert rows into columns.

    VK, try an experiment for me. Set up a PIVOT on Table...

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  • RE: How to convert column value to fields.

    VK, I've seen this before in a couple of different contexts. In the absence of Sparse Columns, I've heard it proposed as a way to store "occasional" columns of...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Makes you wonder if he's asking the questions or being asked the questions. Also makes you wonder where the sudden improvement in his written expressions came from....

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    That's cruel.

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  • RE: How to convert column value to fields.

    This is a classic crosstab problem. You handle it by case expressions to test the value in the fields column to populate a column in the result...

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