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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Craig Farrell (2/8/2011)


    *sighs* I've failed sainthood. I leave this gentleman in your hands, he can't even debate well, and my patience is stretching to the unprofessional realms.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1059167-145-1.aspx

    I've joined in...

  • RE: To get the Max value from one column with case statement without using any aggregate functions

    nadabadan (2/8/2011)


    The algorithm I was referring to is the simple algorithm every computer science student has to solve. Given a set, finding the max or min value.

    The algorithm which...

  • RE: To get the Max value from one column with case statement without using any aggregate functions

    mister.magoo (2/8/2011)


    Tom.Thomson (2/8/2011)


    The algorithm posted by Mr Magoo ... (edited for brevity) ... is however an appallingly opaque way of doing something that can be done in a very transparent...

  • RE: To get the Max value from one column with case statement without using any aggregate functions

    nadabadan (2/8/2011)


    The interviewer wasn't asking what is the best or even a good way to find the min/max value. When you are forced to use a CASE statement, you have...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jcrawf02 (2/8/2011)


    Tom Brown (2/8/2011)


    Ivan the bost of us gits our wucking mords fuddled now ind than.

    'Twas brillig, and the slithey toves did gire and gimble in the wabe...

    Which naturally...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    crookj (2/8/2011)


    Tom.Thomson (2/8/2011)


    CirquedeSQLeil (2/8/2011)


    crookj (2/8/2011)


    WOTD - Dynamic

    Joe

    Cursor

    Dynamic Cursor? Usually when I see one of those I curse the person who wrote it. 😉

    Does that make me a Dynamic...

  • RE: SQL CMD

    Nice interesting question, thanks.

    Maybe the explanation could have mentioned the limitations: no interactive commands, behaviour of a query in SSMS may be different that for the same query in SQLCMD...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    CirquedeSQLeil (2/8/2011)


    crookj (2/8/2011)


    WOTD - Dynamic

    Joe

    Cursor

    Dynamic Cursor? Usually when I see one of those I curse the person who wrote it. 😉

    Does that make me a Dynamic Cursor Curser?...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    crookj (2/7/2011)


    Here's a question for ya...

    At our office we are discussing our favorite movie of all times. I stated that it was the Lord of the Rings. They said which...

  • RE: Invoice Tables and pricing dates

    Jason Coleman (2/7/2011)


    That needs the row_number over (partition, order) feature, and I don't know if MySQL supports it.

    Unfortunately it doesn't. This is really starting to get me stuck....Another option...

  • RE: Invoice Tables and pricing dates

    There seem to be a number of different things happening here.

    1) The cust field may not be matched (the code you posted doesn't address this, although the issue was mentioned...

  • RE: Connection Problems

    Nice question, but very easy indeed for those of us who have been moving databases from server to server for more than a decade.

  • RE: Question of the Day for 19 Oct 2007

    I think that the answer given as correct is correct only in the case where there is no existing checkpoint file (eg when the previous run of the package completed...

  • RE: Replication Framework

    Looks like one of those questions where there's more than one right answer.

    Here's what MS has to say:

    SMO is the primary tool for developing database management applications using .NET Framework....

  • RE: Error creating a trigger

    In select t.department,a.account_id from

    pt_time_project_tasks t inner join pt_time_projects a

    on t.time_bill_id = a.time_bill_id

    if

    a.account_id <> '1562E82F-6852-DF11-A29C-00155D1E165E' and t.department = 'S_Org'

    Begin

    the table aliases a and t are only defined in the select statement...

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