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  • RE: Question of the Day for 19 Jan 2007

    Actually all the suggested answers are wrong. PAD_INDEX doesn't determine if space is left in pages and intermediate levels (the supposedly "correct" answer), indeed it doesn't even determine how...

  • RE: Question of the Day for 25 Jan 2007

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/26/2007)


    My son was telling me about an XBOX game this week, so I guess I got influenced <img src='images/emotions/smile.gif' height='20' width='20' border='0' title='Smile' align='absmiddle'>. Glad...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (11/4/2011)


    What is the capital of Alaska?

    Oh wait, you meant for query plan operators.

    What is this query plan operator?

    It depends....

    ....on whether I'm allowed to call a slightly dishonest...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Cadavre (11/4/2011)


    SQLRNNR (11/4/2011)


    crookj (11/4/2011)


    Daniel Bowlin (11/4/2011)


    1960s ( Does anyone else have the feeling that this decade is going to be a mirror of the 60s? )

    Flashback - (Totally Agree!)

    The...

  • RE: Normalsing a Table set

    Tallboy (11/4/2011)


    Thats what I am asking is it normal practice.

    There would be more than 1 task/organisation id to find as the task that the staff member is being paid for,...

  • RE: Select the document name from a column contaning full path and file name

    One way to do it is

    SELECT REVERSE(LEFT(REVERSE(Document_and_path), CHARINDEX(REVERSE(Document_and_path),'/')-1)

    FROM dbo.Docs

    edit: I see someone else posted the same way of doing it while i...

  • RE: Mirroring

    Nice, good, easy question.

    I forgot to drink lunch before answering, so my inadequately lubricated brain got it wrong.

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Kiara (11/4/2011)


    Brandie Tarvin (11/4/2011)


    Ki,

    You do remember that Table Variables use TempDB, right?

    Yup. But when I've been testing, they seem to do less r/w activity than temp tables do. Could just...

  • RE: Password Help

    I'm inclined to say that frequent password change is a bad thing; but of course it's necessary when once you have shared passwords both because people leave and because shared...

  • RE: Regarding inserting records into 2 tables at a time using stored procedure

    nicko5 (11/3/2011)


    It seems to me you would just want to insert a single email address into two separate tables. If so, you would use the following:

    create procedure RS(@emailtable as...

  • RE: Starting with "WITH"

    The Dixie Flatline (11/3/2011)


    Recursive CTEs can also perform quite suckishly. There is nothing set-based about the recursion.

    There's nothing in recursion that prevents set-based description. The fact...

  • RE: Knowledge capicity of a DBA

    The main thing is not to let the sheer amount of information overwhelm you - recognise that there's more than you can ever learn, realise that the same applies to...

  • RE: Special ORDER BY and Grouping

    Here's some code that does that: it orders the groups by their max price (descending), and the rows with a group by their price (descending). Uses table name "thing"...

  • RE: Major Stupidity on Sys Move

    Are the paths for the master database correct in the registry? I don't know where paths are in sql 2005, but my 2008R2 installation has them in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    SQLRNNR (11/3/2011)


    Daniel Bowlin (11/3/2011)


    Smörgåsbord

    Boardwalk

    Walkout

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