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Sheep without a shepherd are prone to wander....
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
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February 26, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Ever wonder if some species of dinosaur reached our level of technology before the Big Swat?
... or at least the level of coding in assembler?
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
February 26, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I predict COBOL will still be around for another 8000 years... at which time there will be a Y10K crisis.
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
February 26, 2009 at 3:23 pm
[crawling out from under soapbox]
Your party is gathered around a door at the end of the hallway.
Level 4 half-elven dba opens the door. ...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
February 26, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Establishing that the elapsed time I was seeing was due to display issues, not a load on the SQL server pretty much convinced me. I'm not tossing...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
February 26, 2009 at 7:55 am
Gracias.
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
February 26, 2009 at 7:13 am
My one comment about your definitive answer is that it is limited in its application. You're definitely smart to look into implementing a calendar table. Calendar...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
February 26, 2009 at 7:06 am
Teaching, but you can't teach someone who doesn't want to be taught.
I agree 100%, Gail.
So do you give the person who doesn't want to be...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
February 25, 2009 at 11:52 am
Hey G 🙂
It's not barrier to entry. Nobody has to take a test on the material. It's just something that first time OPs should...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
February 25, 2009 at 11:21 am
I'm still curious as to why the elapsed times for you (displaying the data) are so dramatically different from the times I get running your code. Any thoughts?
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
February 25, 2009 at 11:06 am
Let me clarify something about "best practices". I don't mean to imply that we should insist that OPs follow my standards (or Lynn's standards) about where...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
February 25, 2009 at 11:03 am
Steve, a suggestion: Why not expose first time OPs to a best practices for asking questions link BEFORE they enter their question. Just pop it up when...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
February 25, 2009 at 10:30 am
I don't think arguing best practices for formatting of code is a productive use of our time.
(Forgive me Lynn, but in the past year I've begun...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
February 25, 2009 at 10:16 am
Don't you get the impression sometimes that the OP's want his query / sproc / function whatever to look as big and complicated as possible?
When I see big honking strings...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
February 25, 2009 at 9:27 am
Steve, does that mean that this thread is not a good place for me to ask about that annoying little knock in my engine between 60-65 miles per hour?
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills
February 25, 2009 at 9:24 am
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