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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    While I have no intention of getting PERSONALLY involved with that thread, I can think of only two things. They are idle thoughts and may be worth exactly...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Y'all are pretty sad excuses for mad scientists.... now a whizbang fiber-optic laser beam DISassembler... capable of reducing any target into it's component subatomic particles... resulting in a weapon...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    One more post towards 1000.... and close to the original topic here. How many people get annoyed by people who cut and paste data rather than giving a...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grammar lessons, yes... maybe help them Lynn can.....

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  • RE: What is RBAR? How can I avoid it?

    For many developers RBAR perhaps could be an acronym for:

    R(ight) B(ack) (where you started from) A(fter) R(iting) (the same query)

    Frankly, I get the visual impact of "Row By Agonizing...

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  • RE: Why do people need to do this?

    No hate mail here, but I do have one other thought, which again may have been covered and disposed of....

    People (users, clients, developers who can't spell SQL) sometimes make very...

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  • RE: On Using JOINS in FROM clause

    Watch out... Cardinal Moden may be lurking about somewhere close by with pork chop in one hand and a fish in the other.

    😉

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  • RE: On Using JOINS in FROM clause

    GilaMonster (1/22/2009)[hrWell, it's not the join keyword and it's an old way of doing things, and the outer join syntax only works in SQL 2000 and earlier, but

    from table1, table2,...

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  • RE: STDEV() on a count() with Grouping?

    Do you mean to take the standard deviation of the monthly totals by customer, category, etc? If so, try using a cte or subquery to develop those totals...

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  • RE: On Using JOINS in FROM clause

    Grant, would you mind showing an example of how you would use joins in a where clause? I'm not sure what you mean.

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  • RE: Why do people need to do this?

    I haven't scrolled through all 60 or so messages to see if this was mentioned so it may be redundant.

    I sometimes get one-shot requests for a simple CSV file that...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ... and, with fish, you can DANCE!!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fish-Slapping_Dance

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJQp-q1Y1s

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (1/21/2009)


    It sounds more like a Monty Python sketch to me.

    Hmmmmm......

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    "This query is dead."

    "No, it's merely stunned. See, it's using a cursor...."

    "It's written in Norwegian SQL and its...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Now that I read the thread, I have a scene from "Jerry Maguire" running through my head AND IT WON'T COME OUT. Thanks, Ninja.

    I don't have a stick...

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  • RE: View became incorrect when fields added to table

    Doh :w00t: put the T2 column(s) at the front.

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