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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Is anyone else having trouble posting this morning?

    Steve, I have an answer for the OP in this thread and it won't post my reply.

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  • RE: Get filtered result set from CTE

    Chris I looked at your code, but I'm afraid I can't visualize the results you want from the description you gave. (It's late and my mental telepathy is breaking...

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  • RE: Storing data in varchar max size

    Don't be confused by a limit on how much of the data you can DISPLAY at one time. That may be a setting in SSMS.

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  • RE: Insert Update Stored Procedure - HELP

    Add a PRINT @@rowcount immediately after the SET statement. Bet a nickel that it is greater than 0.

    If so, think about *why* and let...

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  • RE: Validating Row contents in Table

    He's right, it's much cleaner if you can use NULLs instead of spaces to denote absence of value.

    Thank you, Mr. Celko. Or may I call you "Ming"...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (9/29/2010)


    Grant Fritchey (9/29/2010)


    GilaMonster (9/29/2010)


    Just found out that the PM promised the users that they can see the reports on monday (as in next week). Fat bloody chance in hell,...

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  • RE: XQuery

    Dates in XML are just character strings. Everything in XML is just a character string.

    replace(@XML,'23-Aug-2010','24-Aug-2010')

    replace(@XML,'2010-08-23','2010-08-24')

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  • RE: XQuery

    A simple way is to simply CAST () your xml as VARCHAR(MAX) and then use the REPLACE() function to make the substitutions you want.

    declare @xml xml = 'your example above'

    select...

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  • RE: Validating Row contents in Table

    You're very welcome. I would be interested in hearing the production volumes you are running through this and how it performs.

    Best of luck...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jack Corbett (9/29/2010)


    Thanks for your thoughts on the "maverick" coder. Unfortunately I don't have the authority to remove the person or force conformity. I have brought up the...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Alvin Ramard (9/29/2010)


    Last night, someone posted an interesting comment in a new thread, in a non-database related forum, that I follow"

    "So I feel there needs to be a thread for...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    It's remarkable how many people don't get the concept that the manager's contribution to the team effort is support. The best managers I've ever had shared the view...

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  • RE: Quickshift (100% - 200% performance increase????)

    Sorry not to be of more help. Good luck to you, Robert.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    CirquedeSQLeil (9/27/2010)


    Anybody here really good with permissions?

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic994116-359-1.aspx

    Not me, Jason. Heck, I don't even like the taste of persimmons.

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  • RE: Quickshift (100% - 200% performance increase????)

    Robert, I am saying this seriously and not sarcastically. I question some of your assumptions about SQL if you think that high CPU cycles are a good...

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