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  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    SQLRNNR (2/25/2013)

    Thick

    Thcream

    Tom

    February 25, 2013 at 1:20 pm

    #1590933

  • RE: Basic maths - operator precedence

    john.arnott (2/24/2013)

    Jamie Longstreet-481950 (2/24/2013)

    I taught English for a while. This is not a criticism but information. The word "math" is both plural and singular. If you use...

    Tom

    February 25, 2013 at 7:48 am

    #1590810

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    L' Eomot Inversé (2/22/2013)

    Jeff Moden (2/22/2013)

    If his machine is as underpowered as my desktop, it will take approximately 40 minutes to gen a billion rows. I know because I...

    Tom

    February 25, 2013 at 5:59 am

    #1590778

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (2/23/2013)

    I don't know about any of you but this is just down right scary.

    Now please, no piling on here.

    When someone has a basic (not as advanced as intermediate)...

    Tom

    February 25, 2013 at 5:38 am

    #1590770

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (2/22/2013)

    dwain.c (2/21/2013)

    L' Eomot Inversé (2/21/2013)

    a little more than 2**48 (256 trillion - counting 1024 instead of 1000 as thousand) rows (actually 281475010265089, which is 1+2**25+2**48). ...

    Tom

    February 22, 2013 at 3:27 pm

    #1590546

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

    Usman Butt (2/22/2013)

    And to supplement my earlier post, please read posts from here onwards. I guess both of our top experts Jeff Moden and Paul White already knows it very...

    Tom

    February 22, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    #1590527

  • RE: Relational Model versus XML

    sestell1 (2/22/2013)

    mike brockington (2/22/2013)

    I guess some people have difficulty in recognising a little humour when its thrown down!

    In reality I would have followed all proper procedures, and given our friend...

    Tom

    February 22, 2013 at 11:17 am

    #1590460

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

    mister.magoo (2/22/2013)

    What bothered me was that feeling that "someone should have thought of this ages ago, shouldn't they"?

    Always makes me nervous when that is the case...

    That feeling was bothering...

    Tom

    February 22, 2013 at 11:05 am

    #1590455

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    crookj (2/22/2013)

    WOTD - kerfuffle

    carfuffle

    Tom

    February 22, 2013 at 10:58 am

    #1590453

  • RE: Relational Model versus XML

    mike brockington (2/22/2013)

    @jfgoude

    The question didn't say anything about being retrospective!

    I won't question your decision to build your own CMS back then, but if you chose to do so today, then...

    Tom

    February 22, 2013 at 8:17 am

    #1590384

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

    mister.magoo (2/22/2013)

    And here is the code (with notes removed for brevity) and the changes underlined.

    Sorry if I have made a mistake, but I think this is valid.

    Looks good to me...

    Tom

    February 22, 2013 at 7:48 am

    #1590367

  • RE: Update with CASE statement

    Tony Bater (2/22/2013)

    I answered the wrong question.:crying: "Objective: Update all the M's to F and all F's to M. " and the result of statement 4 will not be...

    Tom

    February 22, 2013 at 7:38 am

    #1590362

  • RE: Basic SQLCMD Utilities

    (Bob Brown) (2/22/2013)

    Badly worded question but with some research was able to get the three most likely answers that were either deprecated in 2012 or non-existent in 2012!

    I...

    Tom

    February 22, 2013 at 7:30 am

    #1590355

  • RE: Basic SQLCMD Utilities

    Rich Weissler (2/22/2013)

    (Bob Brown) (2/22/2013)

    Badly worded question but with some research was able to get the three most likely answers that were either deprecated in 2012 or non-existent...

    Tom

    February 22, 2013 at 7:20 am

    #1590349

  • RE: Relational Model versus XML

    mike brockington (2/21/2013)

    For the kind of website that was described, SQL server is not going to be appropriate, because none of the CMS's that are appropriate will use it as...

    Tom

    February 21, 2013 at 2:43 pm

    #1590140

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