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  • RE: Comparision of two stings

    I'm not sure I understand the question completely. Could you please give us a (small) example of the data, and a sample query?

    If you are saying you...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Would you call this recursive?

    WITH cte (Curse) AS

    (

    SELECT 'Dammit'

    UNION ALL

    SELECT Curse from cte

    )

    select Curse from cte

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Roy Ernest (5/31/2011)


    Glad to see you back Bob. Regarding all the alphabets after the signature, Can I add all the certification I have done till now (Not even a single...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    The Dixie Flatline (5/31/2011)


    GilaMonster (5/31/2011)


    The Dixie Flatline (5/31/2011)


    Bob Hovious - MBSCSDD/FUBAR/BOHICA

    Bob! Where you been?

    Lurking 😀

    Ummmm.... I mean working. Yeah, that's it....

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (5/31/2011)


    The Dixie Flatline (5/31/2011)


    Bob Hovious - MBSCSDD/FUBAR/BOHICA

    Bob! Where you been?

    Lurking 😀

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (5/31/2011)


    GSquared (5/31/2011)


    The Dixie Flatline (5/31/2011)


    Could 42 possibly be the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

    Considering that we haven't defined either length or time units, I say it's PRECISELY...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Could 42 possibly be the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GSquared (5/31/2011)


    Damian Widera-396333 (5/31/2011)


    What is the *REAL* question here?

    What's the meaning of "42"?

    That depends on the question, doesn't it?

    Bob Hovious - MBSCSDD/FUBAR/BOHICA

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  • RE: join operator "=*"

    That is deprecated syntax for doing a join. Remove it from your where clause and replace

    FROM at_pdesc_off,

    ...

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  • RE: Best practices in querying

    A crude analogy. You own a fruit orchard but are only interested in selling apples today. Is it less work to pick all the...

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  • RE: Help computing distances between multiple points

    If using the STDistance() on a geography type, distance is understood to be calculated over a curved surface. Some SRIDs even take into account that the earth...

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  • RE: How to get following output..

    There is a link in Sean's signature line to this article. It's worth reading.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/

    As Sean said, the people who answer questions in these forums are unpaid volunteers....

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  • RE: Help computing distances between multiple points

    The solution is simple, but you are going to generate a huge number of combinations. (With a small town of only 10,000 properties, you have almost 100...

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  • RE: Combinations and Permutations

    I don't have time to code and test today, but since the same set of points is being cross joined multiple times, perhaps a recursive CTE?

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  • RE: Combinations of rows

    ccparkhill (5/18/2011)


    No, recipie 1 is:

    Apple

    Recipie 7 is:

    Apple

    Orange

    Banana

    My error. I wasn't thinking of combinations of single elements.

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