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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (2/21/2014)


    SQLRNNR (2/21/2014)


    jcrawf02 (2/21/2014)


    Jeff (and all you guys who helped test the delimited split 8k) are solving problems you don't even know about. Found this in my inbox today...

  • RE: Backup/Restore

    The read_only property of the model database has no effect on newly created databases, however created. Whatever the model value is, the value for database created by restore is...

  • RE: In Database We Trust

    stephen.long 56048 (2/20/2014)


    On multiple choice questions like this, it would be best if they did not say "(Select 2)", because four of the options will "use up" those two options:...

  • RE: Software Patents

    My feeling about software patents is that they are a total disaster and will continue to be a total disaster until the world's patent offices all take to rejecting patents...

  • RE: Create a column of numbers that increment by 1

    An alternative way to using group by is simply to put the selection into a subquery:

    select name, TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME,

    ROW_NUMBER() over (order by TABLE_SCHEMA,TABLE_NAME) as RN

    FROM...

  • RE: IDENTITY

    Nice question.

    I sat there for five minutes staring at it looking for the catch, before deciding that there wasn't one.

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Luis Cazares (2/18/2014)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/18/2014)


    Ed Wagner (2/17/2014)


    EL Jerry (2/17/2014)


    G'Day Everyone!!

    Have you noticed the community has grown over 1.7M members?

    Congratulations to Steve et al who founded...

  • RE: Apply Unique constraints on existing database

    ashu.sajwan (2/18/2014)


    Then what's good approach to do resolve this issue in sql server 2005?

    suggestion pls.

    Unless there's a large number of NULLs (many times more entries in the column are NULL...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    rodjkidd (2/18/2014)


    I've been at my current gig now for nearly 11 months, and I finally was in a meeting where

    a) I knew what was going on

    b) Adding value to the...

  • RE: The Model Database

    Thomas Abraham (2/18/2014)


    Isn't this a repeat of the question Steve posted 02/22/2012?? (Or at least the first part of Steve's question.)

    Yes.

    The discussion is a bit less interesting this time, though.

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (2/18/2014)


    BWFC (2/18/2014)


    SQLRNNR (2/17/2014)


    Ed Wagner (2/17/2014)


    Revenant (2/17/2014)


    TomThomson (2/17/2014)


    SQLRNNR (2/17/2014)


    hair

    dog

    dachshund

    Sausage

    schnitzel

    Noodles

    Pasta

    Arrival Theorem (Poisson arrivals see time averages)

  • RE: Apply Unique constraints on existing database

    GilaMonster (2/18/2014)


    Yup, that's it. Should be less overhead than an indexed view.

    The snag is that it only works if you are lucky. Neither "it'll go faster but it may...

  • RE: Apply Unique constraints on existing database

    GilaMonster (2/18/2014)


    Why clustered? This isn't typically where you would put the clustered index.

    not clustered isn't a sensible option - a view has to have a clustered unique index before it...

  • RE: Best way to store images

    Jeff Moden (2/17/2014)


    Here's the plain link for the "file path reference approach".

    http://www.rasteredge.com/how-to/vb-net-imaging/open-save-file/

    Ugh! :sick:

    Couldn't you point to something that doesn't reference that abominable language VB? Can't RasterEdge Image SDK...

  • RE: The Model Database

    Koen Verbeeck (2/18/2014)


    Hany Helmy (2/18/2014)


    Just a simple & basic info to share: "if you changed the model database to Read-Only mode; then any newly created database will be in Read-Only...

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