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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I think I have 4 renditions of the movie based on that novel plus the novel (unabridged) dans sa langue maternelle.

    You surprised me with that Jason. ...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    or breaking the window to steal a loaf of bread a la Jean val Jean

    You know nothing of Javert, 24601 !

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    coerced nonetheless by the need for protection

    I'm afraid I'll have to card you for that one.

    Look up the definition of coercion and it is generally defined as forcing or pressuring...

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  • RE: How to guesstimate # of recursions?

    No, the anchor query in a recursive CTE does not count towards the MAXRECURSION limit.

    As you can see for yourself in the following example, setting MAXRECURSION to 2 doesn't stop...

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  • RE: Left Join issues

    I confess to being curious whether or not all the grouping will be faster than the joins we're trying to avoid.

    Just for fun, here's another way of looking at it....

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I was about to spend a bit of time and effort joining into the debate. But I find that my views are summed up quite nicely here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOOTKA0aGI0

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Departing briefly from the fascinating debate in progress, I would like to invite others to consider the coding problem here. I started out trying to help the...

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  • RE: Dynamic CTE?

    You are welcome, for what my help was worth, but I am going to have to bow out at this point. While it is possible to write...

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  • RE: Dynamic CTE?

    Understood. But that is not really suitable for a set-based solution in SQL. Which is why I advised you to get some front-end coding done...

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  • RE: probem with declare

    Glad it's working, but a null value in the table wouldn't cause the error below:

    Msg 137, Level 15, State 2, Line 4

    Must declare the scalar variable "@_type".

    A word of advice:...

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  • RE: Dynamic CTE?

    It's more complicated than that, Gus. Take a look at the original question and the solution I gave him (with warnings). The problem is...

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  • RE: probem with declare

    The last code you posted (which is repeated below) works on fine for me. Are you posting ALL the code you're executing. Are you sure...

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  • RE: Need Help with Logic

    My possible result sets(o/p) from joining two tables are

    Possible o/p 1:

    col1 col2 col3

    1 1 a

    1 1 b

    Possible o/p 2:

    col1 col2 col3

    1 1 a

    1 2 a

    1 1 b

    1 2...

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  • RE: insert into problem

    Please don't double post. This is essentially the same question I answered here.

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  • RE: probem with declare

    carlos cachulo-318532 (7/13/2011)


    if i run

    SELECT max(turno)+1 INTO@_type FROM u_contadores;

    i get the desired value

    I beg to differ. The statement:

    select @max(turno)+1 into @_type from u_contadores

    is not valid...

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