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  • RE: The Import Wizard

    Koen Verbeeck (11/6/2014)


    TomThomson (11/6/2014)


    Good question.

    It raises an issue about the quality of this wizard: why on earth doesn't it read metadata for the target table and set lengths accordingly?...

  • RE: Does the database exist?

    Andy sql (11/4/2014)


    Alex gets a +1

    It is a very important concept in the Powershell world; in this example, the "dir" alias doesn't just return a list of databases - it...

  • RE: The Import Wizard

    Good question.

    It raises an issue about the quality of this wizard: why on earth doesn't it read metadata for the target table and set lengths accordingly? It shouldn't...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (11/5/2014)


    djj (11/5/2014)


    Ed Wagner (11/5/2014)


    Stuart Davies (11/5/2014)


    Jeff Moden (11/4/2014)


    Ed Wagner (11/4/2014)


    SQLRNNR (11/4/2014)


    Pistol

    Rifle

    Porkchop Cannon 😀

    Hamburger Bishop

    Caliber

    Twenty-two

    Forty-four

    Bulldog (11.18)

  • RE: Am I breaking Normalization

    The whole point of holding prices in two places is to avoid updating one when the other changes - the two prices are two different things, and trying to cram...

  • RE: Fun with RAND()

    Good question.

    I was careless, and ignored the implicit conversion of ((RAND() * 10) + 1) to int; since implicit conversion to int rounds towards 0 in SQL, and...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (10/31/2014)


    SQLRNNR (10/31/2014)


    Ed Wagner (10/31/2014)


    crookj (10/31/2014)


    Ed Wagner (10/31/2014)


    Stuart Davies (10/31/2014)


    Ed Wagner (10/30/2014)


    SQLRNNR (10/30/2014)


    cold

    Snow

    Shoes

    Running

    Nose

    Smell

    Death

    Creeping

    Crawling

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    SQLRNNR (10/29/2014)


    Ed Wagner (10/29/2014)


    SQLRNNR (10/29/2014)


    Ed Wagner (10/29/2014)


    SQLRNNR (10/28/2014)


    Ed Wagner (10/28/2014)


    crookj (10/28/2014)


    SQLRNNR (10/28/2014)


    Ed Wagner (10/28/2014)


    SQLRNNR (10/28/2014)


    Nos4A2

    Code

    bite

    Rabies

    Disease

    desirable

    Wanted

    Dead or Alive

    Bon Jovi

    Steel Horse

    Fess

  • RE: Formatted output

    Nice question, but why does the explanation say "first" instead of "last" when the last character is removed by SUBSTRING(Ms, 1, DATALENGTH(Ms) / 2 - 1) and the first...

  • RE: Trace Flag

    Nice question. At one point I would have found a means of logging full and incremental backups but not log backups useful, but that feature has never been provided.

  • RE: FIRST_VALUE

    rfreiberg001 (10/27/2014)


    Koen Verbeeck (10/27/2014)


    karthik babu (10/27/2014)


    Hi Steve,

    I got the below answers in my SQL 2014 instance.. Could you please explain why this answer was incorrect...

    Escobar2014-04-06 00:00:00

    Escobar2014-04-07 00:00:00

    Escobar2014-04-07 00:00:00

    Jeter2014-04-01 00:00:00

    Jeter2014-04-01 00:00:00

    Jeter2014-04-01...

  • RE: Tracking status over time

    It looks to me as if it would be easier to avoid strange results if you left out the EndDate column. Since you say tha entering a start date...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (10/23/2014)


    sing4you (10/23/2014)


    Ed Wagner (10/23/2014)


    SQLRNNR (10/23/2014)


    crookj (10/23/2014)


    happy Mole day...

    Ole

    Sole

    Cod

    Whitefish

    Hake

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    spaghettidba (10/21/2014)


    Hi!

    It's been a very long time since I last posted on THE thread...

    Actually it's been a very long time since I posted regularly on the forums, but now I...

  • RE: When is 8000 too small?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/11/2010)


    jparker2 (2/11/2010)


    This has already been resolved.

    If you want to work with strings greater than 8K then declare them as XML or TEXT.

    In Access use a...

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