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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    So much for improving. Guess someone's going straight back on the blacklist.

    I reluctantly reached that decision last week. I glanced at your link. He is...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I came out on the better end of the deal, Alvin. Thanks for the coffee cup. 😉

    By the way, Alvin should be congratulated on the first meeting...

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  • RE: T-Sql rant

    ... and, lest we take ourselves way too seriously.

    http://xkcd.com/386/

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Vaguely serious, non-beer question.

    I just kidded Lynn about chastising someone for hijacking "the rant", because it had already been briefly hijacked by a discussion of incrementing next rowID values....

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  • RE: T-Sql rant

    Don't hijack it like you guys did with the "increment" discussion, Lynn? 😉

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    In Park City, Utah, they brew Polygamy Porter, in deference to the early Mormons.

    Motto: Why have just one?

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    Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
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  • RE: Need a function to compare strings.

    Posted at the top and in my function.

    - one character added or omitted between strings: Hovious/Hovios

    or

    - one character mistyped: Hovious/Jovious

    ...

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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?

    Arrogance, it seems, returned it has. Oh well, much hope I have no longer.

    Is it possible he's been doing it all with cursors since 1995 ??

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Snort!

    No thanks, Bruce. Cocaine makes me crazy. 😎

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

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  • RE: T-Sql rant

    You obviously don't need my help then.

    I'd still advise you to just read, and follow, the Forum Etiquette[/url] article so that you completely lay out your questions...

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  • RE: Need a function to compare strings.

    Thanks G, but it fails the data test in one respect. When two extra characters are added at the front of the string, it would correctly throw...

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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?

    Great, now I have to watch that thread so I can find out how it works too!

    It works WONDERFULLY!! Lasts a long time, too....

    I use...

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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?

    Of course, there's some debate as to whether intelligent life exists anywhere in the universe.

    The dolphins are still with us. 😉

    All together now, everybody sing ...... ...

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  • RE: Need a function to compare strings.

    Thanks for testing it, Flo.

    Inline table valued functions generally perform better when processed against entire sets with CROSS APPLY. The problem is that...

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