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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Hi Lynn.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Just a reminder to all you paranoids out there:

    We know who you are, and we're watching you.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Hey, good to see you again, Barry.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (5/9/2012)


    Jeff Moden (5/9/2012)


    Lynn Pettis (5/9/2012)


    Sorry for the code, but I need a place to keep these solutions for a hypothetical problem on another thread.

    Wow! Working with Oracle...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    L' Eomot Inversé (5/3/2012)


    The Dixie Flatline (5/3/2012)


    However, I reserve and defend the right to continue "snarking" here in The Thread. 😀

    Snarking is fair enough, but I hope "boojuming" is...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jcrawf02 (5/1/2012)


    Best. XKCD. Ever.[/url]

    NO !!!

    This one[/url] is.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Good point, Sean. I've will confess to being a really bad offender in the past. Nowadays, I post less, and then only if I...

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  • RE: Optimize query for finding nearest airport based on latitude and longitude using STDistance

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  • RE: Optimize query for finding nearest airport based on latitude and longitude using STDistance

    facturan.antonio (4/30/2012)


    Hi guys.

    I'm really grateful for all the help you've shared. Analyzing the formulas takes a lot of time for me to somehow grasp what does it do. ...

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  • RE: Optimize query for finding nearest airport based on latitude and longitude using STDistance

    Here is a link to a blog by Isaac Kunen discussing "nearest neighbor" solutions using spatial functions in SQL 2008. (This query will actually become fairly easy in SQL...

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  • RE: How to split Delimited text

    Its not that nasty, it's a fairly straightforward parse, BUT....

    Column

    Home/Documents/Text/Files/

    Home/Documents/Text

    Home/Documents/Text/Files/XYZ.txt

    Home/Documents/Text/Files/

    Home/Documents/

    There is no "Text" in the last line of your input, yet you want it to appear in your output.

    It "Text"...

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  • RE: subquery vs scalar functions

    As a general rule, stay away from scalar functions, especially ones that contain SELECT statements. I assume this is what you are talking about because you want to...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn, have you ever considered asking an OP to include himself in an execution plan?

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Nice hat, Roy 😎

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I have a question: How can there be a past edition of DBCC TIMEWARP?

    Conceptually, I thought that there was only one version that was and is and...

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