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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I speak fluent Southern and have a working knowledge of English.

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  • RE: select into multiple tables

    One of our developers tried to write a batch job with a cursor to read the input table once and write parts of it out to three different tables. ...

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  • RE: SQL Function : Find ‘X’ Business Days in the Future

    So my question here would be do you assume worst case that it's going to be hit really hard and go for the tabular method and take a hit if...

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  • RE: SQL Function : Find ‘X’ Business Days in the Future

    Let me go on the record as loving this.

    See what you started? Fun isn't it?

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  • RE: Combining records

    I have an answer IF a given row in the "before" table will never contain information in more than one column. Answer yes or no whether...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Just a note here that is sort of back on topic. I learned a lesson today that we benefit from being patient with others.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic649517-1472-1.aspx

    This...

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  • RE: SQL Function : Find ‘X’ Business Days in the Future

    Okay, finally had time to do the inline function and retest. The inline function with CROSS APPLY actually seems to run just a hair faster, averaging 89xx ms...

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  • RE: Programatically access newsequentialid()

    Thank you for sharing, Gaby. I hate to come across as being dense. I guess I've just been fortunate enough to have the freedom to make...

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  • RE: SQL Function : Find ‘X’ Business Days in the Future

    peter (2/5/2009)


    When dealing whith functions that are called frequently, it usually pays off to write them as inline table valued functions (also called parameterized views) and then invoke them using...

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  • RE: SQL Function : Find ‘X’ Business Days in the Future

    More on performance.

    I just finished testing a million row update on my laptop. Using a subquery/derived table instead of a function, I was getting around 9.5 seconds...

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  • RE: SQL Function : Find ‘X’ Business Days in the Future

    No problem. I've posted up a couple of solutions to questions in the T-SQL forums and then been taught the error of my wicked ways. ...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    POSTS!! Thank heavens, I was afraid I'd gone thread-blind. :w00t:

    Either that or a threadinator was going around picking off the contributors, one by one.

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  • RE: SQL Function : Find ‘X’ Business Days in the Future

    I'd like to echo Jack's comments about putting the article out there. Even though there is debate about the technique used to solve the problem, your article...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I just have to blink and be the first to ask.

    Is this thread dead?

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  • RE: SQL Function : Find ‘X’ Business Days in the Future

    Andrew Reilly (2/4/2009)


    Another flaw with this solution is it doesn't handle adding a negative number of days which is just as important in my eyes

    I wouldn't call it a flaw,...

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