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  • RE: Truncate table query

    Koen Verbeeck (9/11/2014)


    Please don't say truncate table data isn't logged unless you understand the concepts involved.

    😉

    The Myth that DROP and TRUNCATE TABLE are Non-Logged

    +1000000

    It's amazing, when even the reference quoted...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (9/10/2014)


    TomThomson (9/10/2014)


    Stefan Krzywicki (9/10/2014)


    Date columns as a varchar(7). What are you even putting in there? Still better than the date columns as Timestamp I guess.

    It's probably the ISO-8061...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (9/10/2014)


    Date columns as a varchar(7). What are you even putting in there? Still better than the date columns as Timestamp I guess.

    It's probably the ISO-8061 presentation format for...

  • RE: Tally OH! An Improved SQL 8K “CSV Splitter” Function

    Alan.B (9/10/2014)


    MDS and DQS also rely heavily on CLR - those are not going away anytime soon.

    Some time in the 90s someone probably said "ODS relies heavily on extended stored...

  • RE: Tally OH! An Improved SQL 8K “CSV Splitter” Function

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/10/2014)


    Jeff Moden (9/10/2014)


    Solomon Rutzky (9/9/2014)


    In the end, isn't this why Microsoft gave us CLR Integration?

    Heh... yeah... just like they gave us the ability to write...

  • RE: Denormalising Data

    Luis Cazares (9/9/2014)


    Here's an option to read the table once based on Tom's post and cross tabs.

    with number as (select Exam_id

    , row_number() over (partition by exam_id order by...

  • RE: Denormalising Data

    Here's a fairly primitive way to do it. Possibly not brilliant performance, but if you are only going to run it once....

    First, some code to create the source and...

  • RE: Synonyms 1

    Interesting question.

    But as Erikur pointed out, the correct answer is "It depends" (on your default schema) and is not available. :hehe:

  • RE: The Real Scary DBAs

    The DBAs to be scared of are the ones who can't reliably do their jobs. They are just as likely to have trained as DBAs as to be accidental...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    djj (9/8/2014)


    Ed Wagner (9/8/2014)


    ChrisM@Work (9/8/2014)


    Ed Wagner (9/8/2014)


    crookj (9/8/2014)


    Ed Wagner (9/7/2014)


    TomThomson (9/5/2014)


    Ed Wagner (9/5/2014)


    Sean Lange (9/5/2014)


    Capsize

    Expensive

    Dear

    Yes, Dear

    Honey-Do

    Perpetual

    Peripatus

    Worm

    Fishing

    Flies

  • RE: How bad this in terms of performance; udf in WHERE

    CELKO (9/6/2014)


    You got my job history completely wrong. I have worked in more industries than most people, my academic work is still quoted in text books and my trade press...

  • RE: Concatenate fields and insert comma between: how to handle nulls

    It depends what you want to do with the NULLs. You can either turn them into zero length strings, or just throw them away. Or you may wnt...

  • RE: Arabic langauge not display when i make search by arabic langauge why

    In the stored procedure you generate the string SELECT * from Employee where EmployeeName LIKE '%????%'

    What you need is the stringSELECT * from Employee where EmployeeName LIKE N'%????%'

    So you need...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (9/5/2014)


    Hand on my heart, the man is a complete prince in the real world. I don't understand, or defend, his online persona. I just can't let it override...

  • RE: How bad this in terms of performance; udf in WHERE

    CELKO (9/5/2014)


    Why do we want names here? I can see no point to them.

    To help preserve atomicity, of course. 😛

    Clearly then you haven't read this passage:-

    E.F.Codd (1990)

    From a database...

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