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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    You could always unsubscribe, noel. 😛

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  • RE: give me your suggestion

    You DID get the compliment from an MVP

    I heard you were an MVP. What I meant to say was that I took more pride in that compliment...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    We are getting ideas.

    OMG NOOOOOOOooooooooo :w00t:

    Steve, a suggestion for enhancements: Could each block have a copy button above it to make it easier to cut and paste...

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  • RE: give me your suggestion

    Steve posted his times for 11000 rows as follows

    SQL Server Execution Times:

    CPU time = 4992 ms, elapsed time = 5213 ms.

    When I tested it on my...

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  • RE: give me your suggestion

    Thanks Jeff... I take more pride in a compliment like that from you than I would from an MVP.... although unfortunately it doesn't look as good on a resume. ...

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  • RE: Two scripts to spell out numbers in words

    I also found the function to be slow in testing. I had an alternate way of generating the number that was much quicker, but for performance, the best...

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  • RE: give me your suggestion

    I just tested the function from that article ... it is SLOW!!!!

    9999 rows converted using that function takes almost 20 seconds!!!

    set statistics time on;

    -- test using join to existing table

    select...

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  • RE: FTS CONTAINS vs. %LIKE%

    I'm afraid I don't have an answer for you. We haven't implemented full-text search in production. Someone suggested using it to replace some existing search functionality...

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  • RE: FTS CONTAINS vs. %LIKE%

    Empire State Building

    State Building

    Building

    Since you will be writing the parsing to build the strings, doing that shouldn't be a problem.

    How volatile is the data in the name...

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  • RE: How generate Dates on the fly

    No sweat. I didn't see the requirement in the first post either. You owe me a millisecond 😉

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  • RE: give me your suggestion

    Once the table is built it appears to be more efficient to just look a number up. Running the test below with 9999 different numbers, the...

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  • RE: FTS CONTAINS vs. %LIKE%

    I've seen an article in here recently where someone had implemented a similar scheme. Essentially, at the time the name field was inserted, they parsed out all...

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  • RE: give me your suggestion

    First, you should be warned that string manipulations like this should be done by the application, not in SQL. The reasons for this are to protect the...

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  • RE: Building table dynamically fails

    DOH!! :w00t:

    That's what I get for having gotten away from using EXEC.

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  • RE: FTS CONTAINS vs. %LIKE%

    The answer to these kinds of questions is usually "It depends." Two significant variables here are the size of the name column (average of four words)...

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