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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (9/20/2013)


    So, could you do the following during a filibuster?

    If I understand the rules, no - you have to keep talking except for pauses that can be...

    Tom

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (9/20/2013)


    Are you good folks saying that any form of SELECT/INTO is bad? If so, why?

    I don't think select into is always bad; I do think that it...

    Tom

  • RE: Printed Books Vs E-Books

    George M Parker (9/19/2013)


    For me, it really depends on the purpose of the book. For "reading" books, I'm fine with eBooks on the laptop or the tablet. For "studying"...

    Tom

  • RE: The MCM Program is dead. Long live the MCMs!

    steve.fortner 92896 (9/19/2013)


    I assume the culture in the UK is similar to the US then as far as college "requirements" for most tech jobs?

    Not quite as firmly cast in concrete...

    Tom

  • RE: Printed Books Vs E-Books

    Jeff Atherton (9/19/2013)


    Print & PDF. While I read a lot of books on my iPad I have yet to read a technical computer book on the iPad... usually because they...

    Tom

  • RE: Msg 468, Level 16, State 9, Procedure "procedurename", Line 129 Cannot resolve the collation conflict between "Latin1_General_CI_AS" and "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS" in the equal to operation.

    GOODS (9/19/2013)


    Hi guys,

    I'm have same issue:

    Msg 468, Level 16, State 9, Procedure RPT_MTX_CDR_CostBreakdown_PerMsisdn, Line 142

    Cannot resolve the collation conflict between "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS" and "Latin1_General_CI_AS" in the equal to operation.

    I have the...

    Tom

  • RE: Sql server sorting issues

    Brandie Tarvin (9/19/2013)


    I know half a dozen ways to do what you've requested. But any easier than the easiest way I posted above?

    If you find one, let me know.

    Rather than...

    Tom

  • RE: Printed Books Vs E-Books

    Sean Pearce (9/18/2013)


    I am not voting because I use all three options.

    I use all three options, plus others, but I'm voting for tablet because I've run out of shelf space...

    Tom

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (9/18/2013)


    L' Eomot Inversé (9/18/2013)


    Don't need to is surely an understatement: you are not allowed to, I think?

    If you mean the SELECT * INTO, unfortunately that's allowed. I've cleaned so...

    Tom

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Koen Verbeeck (9/18/2013)


    Stefan Krzywicki (9/18/2013)


    Am I wrong in saying we shouldn't be using

    SELECT * INTO #A1 FROM Table

    SELECT * INTO #B1 FROM #A1

    in production code? #A1 & #B1 are also...

    Tom

  • RE: Datefirst

    sqlnaive (9/18/2013)


    it is going to set the default language for that session as 'us_english' no matter what the other settings are. I myself has 'british' as default in my environment....

    Tom

  • RE: The MCM Program is dead. Long live the MCMs!

    amenjonathan (9/18/2013)


    Certs are very, very specific and really don't help much (IMO).

    Not very much? If they help at all, the recruiter is probably an idiot (unless the cert is...

    Tom

  • RE: The MCM Program is dead. Long live the MCMs!

    Grant Fritchey (9/18/2013)


    carpainter69 (9/17/2013)


    So I'm a little confused on what to do, there are good arguments for and against certs. .... There was advice about saying what I...

    Tom

  • RE: What does certification achieve?

    bcb (9/17/2013)


    Some years ago I took a sample of the standard MCDBA (or whatever it was called) test. I quit in disgust when it asked "How many tables can a...

    Tom

  • RE: Reserved Words - 1

    Toreador (9/18/2013)


    Nice question, but I can't understand why the stuff about quoted identifiers is in the explanation. Surely the result is identical even if QUOTED_IDENTIFIER is On?

    I think that wa...

    Tom

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