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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    He started his career as an ERP Technical Consultant in 2007.

    Call me old-school, but I cannot understand someone STARTING their career as a consultant.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Boy, I missed all the fun last night... and missed free beer to boot. That's what I get for paying attention to my wife. :w00t:

    Face it people, we...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    But it bears repeating..... because NOBODY ever expects the SQL Inquisition!

    ... and yes... Lynn is a saint.

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  • RE: Select distinct on multiple columns

    It ain't pretty, but will this get it?

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    create table #temp (entry_id int ,group_id int,cost int,level int)

    insert into #temp

    select 1001, 2001, 5,...

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  • RE: how to create trigger to call a stored procedure

    Paul, I believe noel's point is that if you have a stored procedure to insert rows into Table B, and you want to use it whenever you insert a row...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I think Greg stated it well. Don't put the OP on the defensive.

    As for my calling a "cursor" a dirty word.... I wasn't trying to get more...

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  • RE: t-sql question!!

    If the col1 values are always at the end, so you can do it with the code at the bottom. This same principal be used to remove a...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Gail and Steve, I understand why you always want to discuss the full problem when you see someone about to go seriously wrong. But there is the point...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff and Gail:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic666052-338-1.aspx

    Is this "feed a fish", "teach to fish", or ask "Why on earth do you want fish?" I'm waiting to see if the OP comes...

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  • RE: A Case For Concatenation (Building Delimited Strings ) In T-SQL

    I was referring to inadequacies of alleged IT professionals 😉

    My war story is that our development group used to have a guy whose entire job...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Applause for Lynn !!!!

    He actually persuaded a new OP to go back and set up their question correctly 🙂

    ...

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  • RE: get parent and all of its child records

    I see what you were doing with both a parentID and a childId column now, and I would guess that type 2 means child and type 1 means parent. ...

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  • RE: get parent and all of its child records

    MUCH more helpful. Thank you. Looking at your tables now.

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  • RE: A Case For Concatenation (Building Delimited Strings ) In T-SQL

    files that have been mangled by people who don't have the faintest clue what they're doing

    I just have to ask, how much of your coding efforts are spent on compensating...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    New function, Steve... we need a thread-parser.

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