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  • RE: primary key discussion

    CELKO (8/29/2014)


    How about something like Coupon types? What would you use there? I am certainly not going to use the description of the type (PercentageDiscount, FreeShipping, BOGO, etc).

    A type...

  • RE: Sql agent job step - tsql command

    rbartram-847800 (8/28/2014)


    I have a similar issue.. I want all my steps in a job to go to the next step even if the step fails but I want it...

  • RE: Reverse Engineering Disasters

    I like the editorial, it's presenting a quick view of an important issue, but I don't like the referenced article "What would it take..." because it doesn't look at cost...

  • RE: primary key discussion

    If queries which scan a range of primary key are used very often, you may want to cluster on the primary key; where the primary key is multi-column, that includes...

  • RE: Hooks

    The trouble with thinking you can get stuff into the error log with RAISERROR is quite simply that most SQL should be running without SA privilege and probably without ALTER...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ed Wagner (8/28/2014)


    I just hope I don't become one of the people who post an answer and forget to answer the original question. 😛

    Oh, that's sad - we were hoping...

  • RE: Hypervisor

    Good question, Steve.

    But too easy because the first three options are too obviously wrong and there are only 4 options in all.

    Everyone knows that

    (i) the speed doubling switch on certain...

  • RE: Does anyone have a good 'validate email' function?

    GilaMonster (8/27/2014)


    sqldriver (8/27/2014)


    GilaMonster (8/27/2014)


    sqldriver (8/27/2014)


    I used to use this. Not perfect by any stretch but got most of the junk out.

    Does it flag this as invalid?

    MyAccount+SSC@Gmail.com

    http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-your.html

    It does.

    Which is why...

  • RE: Does anyone have a good 'validate email' function?

    Gazareth (8/28/2014)


    Alumni of OUCL are you Tom? Good stuff 🙂

    Tony's PRG used to have what were called "research officers" which essentially were representatives of industrial concerns that they were doing...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (8/28/2014)


    BWFC (8/28/2014)


    TomThomson (8/27/2014)


    Ed Wagner (8/27/2014)


    crookj (8/27/2014)


    Ed Wagner (8/27/2014)


    BWFC (8/27/2014)


    Punched tape

    Cards (remember the stack that got dropped?)

    Chad

    Election

    Florida

    Keys

    Alligators

    Everglades

  • RE: CTE

    Good question. I decided that as it's not possible to set compataility level to 9.0 (as opposed to 90) that couldn't be the answer, which left only one possibility....

  • RE: SQL Server 2008 r2?

    Good question, but some very careless wording both in the question itself and in the explanation.

    "We want to ..." is not something that happens. So there's really...

  • RE: Does anyone have a good 'validate email' function?

    GilaMonster (8/27/2014)


    sqldriver (8/27/2014)


    GilaMonster (8/27/2014)


    sqldriver (8/27/2014)


    I used to use this. Not perfect by any stretch but got most of the junk out.

    Does it flag this as invalid?

    MyAccount+SSC@Gmail.com

    http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-your.html

    It does.

    Which is why...

  • RE: Functions as predicates and SARGable queries

    Hugo Kornelis (8/27/2014)


    I am torn between two opinions on this question.

    It is a good question because of the educational value on how the optimizer works and how indexes are (can...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (8/27/2014)


    crookj (8/27/2014)


    Ed Wagner (8/27/2014)


    BWFC (8/27/2014)


    Punched tape

    Cards (remember the stack that got dropped?)

    Chad

    Election

    Florida

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