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  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    GilaMonster (5/10/2011)


    Daniel Bowlin (5/10/2011)


    Ray K (5/10/2011)


    Brandie Tarvin (5/10/2011)


    WOTD: Hands

    Feet

    Inches

    Metres. (no more of that imperial garbage)

    Except of course for electrical and magnetic units: those SI units are based on the BAAS...

  • RE: Custom Sort Order / Casting Date to Text

    Lowell (5/7/2011)


    i would order by datetime, and never convert.

    you could use the COALESCE function to get the order you want i think; that would be the easiest:

    ORDER BY COALESCE(ArrivalDate,BookingDate,DepositDate)

    Since ArrivalDate...

  • RE: Showing Its Age

    MHilsher (4/28/2011)


    If we want to talk about building a smarter market and making software investments last longer then, I think, we need to be willing to look at the whole...

  • RE: Showing Its Age

    duplicate post - sorry

  • RE: Showing Its Age

    Daniel Bowlin (4/27/2011)


    Do you think mainframe software folks in the 1970's were worried about the Y2K issue when they worked-NO-they didn't believe their applications would be around that long. ...

  • RE: Performance Counters

    Nice easy question.

    If there were more like this I would have a better score.

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

    ChrisM@home (5/3/2011)


    Jeff, please please please write a book, without changing your style. Give us all an opportunity to repay you for what you've done for us.

    I'll second that suggestion. ...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    RAIN

    I've seen more rain in the last two and a half days than in the previous five and a half months. I suppose I asked for it, coming back...

  • RE: Restoring Editions

    Paul Randal (5/6/2011)


    There's no choice but to have it behave that way because something in the transaction log that gets recovered at the end of the restore good disable compression...

  • RE: Restoring Editions

    Good question.

    I got that one wrong by assuming that backup would be up-front about whether row and page compression had been included so that failure would be immediate. Now...

  • RE: Heaps

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/6/2011)


    Tom.Thomson (5/5/2011)


    I am very sure that the "correct" answer is utterly wrong.

    The MS documentation makes an absolutely clear distinction between "heap" and "heap...

  • RE: Heaps

    I am very sure that the "correct" answer is utterly wrong.

    The MS documentation makes an absolutely clear distinction between "heap" and "heap structure". For example the sentence "For...

  • RE: Replication DR

    Nice question. I like it when the question is clear and the answer too, with no scope for arguing about what it means.

    Subscription mirroring isn't all it should be,...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Peter Trast (5/4/2011)


    Tom.Thomson (5/4/2011)


    ....

    Yes, the dialect range is quite amazing and very interesting. Unfortunately everything is tending to even down towards a common grammar, a common vocabulary, and a common...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Peter Trast (5/4/2011)


    Ray K (5/4/2011)


    True story: years ago, I attended a baseball game in Boston (yes, dangerous for a Yankee fan! ;-)) where I struck up a conversation with the...

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