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  • RE: PIVOT query

    Thank you, sir. 🙂

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  • RE: Group By clause

    I have colleagues who use GROUP BY clauses without aggregation in place of a SELECT DISTINCT. The results appear to be the same. I've always used a DISTINCT if I...

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  • RE: How to handle empty return

    Thanks, Arun.

    Almost missed the EXISTS in the first line. I'm going to test both and see if there is any significant difference.

    Jeff's version appears to be slightly...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I once shot an elephant in my pajamas... how he got into my pajamas, I'll never know.

    I see a little silhouette-o of a man

    Scaramouche! Scaramouche!

    Will you do the fandango?

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  • RE: PIVOT query

    Good deal, Ed 🙂

    Quick question, after you do the pivot, are you having to do another step to group the various IDs into a single string, or are you joining...

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  • RE: How to handle empty return

    That's what we're looking for, only one of the two queries runs based on EXISTS test.

    Thanks, Jeff.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I've been trying in vain to think of a good image so I can market "ThreadHead" t-shirts.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    You don't like "Bohemian Rhapsody", Bruce?

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    BismilLAH!... NO! It will not let you go! 😀

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  • RE: AVOID updates to a linked server

    The security would be implemented on the AS400 side. So have a chat with the AS400 admin. If it is like SQL server, they would create an...

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  • RE: Group By clause

    Nelson, could you please be specific about "the desired results?" We really have no idea of what you are trying to accomplish. ...

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  • RE: How to handle empty return

    I know of no syntax for a "null row". Either one or more rows are returned, or they aren't, and @@Rowcount is the way to...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    You cannot die, McLeod.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    FLASH!

    AhhhhAhhhhhh

    Savior of the universe.....

    Gail, do they have the "Inspector Gadget" cartoon over there? I find that tune flushes everything else out.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Yes.... I speak of Him Who Must Not Be Named !! :w00t:

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