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  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    Lynn Pettis (6/3/2016)


    ZZartin (6/3/2016)


    Lynn Pettis (6/3/2016)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/3/2016)


    We can be pedantic if we want. However, a batch consists of 1 or more statements. The option notes that...

  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    Lynn Pettis (6/3/2016)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/3/2016)


    We can be pedantic if we want. However, a batch consists of 1 or more statements. The option notes that the previous statement...

  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    Terje Hermanseter (6/3/2016)


    I don't understand why MS is wavering on the commitment to enforce them as they've been part of the ISO-1999 standard for a very long time.

    Too much old...

  • RE: Bias, the Serial Killer of Diversity

    dietztm (6/2/2016)


    Matt Miller (#4) (6/2/2016)


    tindog (6/2/2016)


    umailedit (6/1/2016)


    Matt Miller (#4) (6/1/2016)If the two candidates were close (i.e. the rating for both was fairly close) it may be hard to quantify why...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Luis Cazares (6/2/2016)


    Ed Wagner (6/2/2016)


    Manic Star (6/2/2016)


    crookj (6/2/2016)


    Ballad (of Irving the 142nd fastest gun in the west)

    Minstrel

    Renaissance

    Leonardo

    Pizza

  • RE: Sum inside of Select Statement

    Those two formulas are not equivalent. Without looking at the data or taking into account date ranges this looks like what your query is doing.

    SELECT (SUM(COL_ONE) - SUM(COL_TWO)) /...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    crookj (6/1/2016)


    djj (6/1/2016)


    Revenant (6/1/2016)


    djj (6/1/2016)


    Manic Star (6/1/2016)


    Ed Wagner (6/1/2016)


    Hugo Kornelis (6/1/2016)


    crookj (6/1/2016)


    yb751 (6/1/2016)


    Ed Wagner (6/1/2016)


    Grumpy DBA (6/1/2016)


    Ed Wagner (6/1/2016)


    djj (6/1/2016)


    Fantasy

    Mordor

    Sauron

    Ring

    Diamond

    Club

    Exclusive

    Inclusive

    Inside

    Trading

    Horses

    Races

    Whacky

    Tobaccy

  • RE: Database Design Follies: NULL vs. NOT NULL

    Dennis Q Miller (6/1/2016)


    Stacey Decker (10/30/2014)


    I agree, why allow two values to mean the same thing? I handle this by allowing optional fields such as AddressLine2 to be NULL and...

  • RE: Bias, the Serial Killer of Diversity

    GSquared (5/31/2016)


    David.Poole (5/27/2016)


    If you turn up to an interview as Britain's worst presented compost heap then more fool you. You don't know who you are going to meet, whether...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (5/27/2016)


    I just heard from my husband (who works at Deutsche Bank) that there is a holiday coincidence for Monday. A confluence of several countries having bank holidays at...

  • RE: Bias, the Serial Killer of Diversity

    Making biased assumptions based on past experience or anecdotal evidence is part of human nature, drawing biased conclusions and being unwilling to change them when they prove false on the...

  • RE: What's Your Test Plan?

    Hopefully you have a dev and test environment you can test this in first. That's where any major issues should shake out.

    But the most important things are to check...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    HappyGeek (5/17/2016)


    yb751 (5/17/2016)


    Ed Wagner (5/17/2016)


    Luis Cazares (5/17/2016)


    ThomasRushton (5/17/2016)


    crookj (5/17/2016)


    Ray K (5/17/2016)


    DonlSimpson (5/17/2016)


    Filling

    Pie

    Banana (cream)

    Split

    Van Damme

    Bloodsport

    Action

    Movie

    Silver

  • RE: Question About Getting Max Dense_Rank Number

    This might work,

    DECLARE @myvalue INT

    SELECT @myvalue = MAX(COL_ONE)

    FROM (SELECT DENSE_RANK() OVER(ORDER BY TotalSalesAmt) COL_ONE FROM SalesItem2) TEMP_ONE

  • RE: Would You Move For a Job?

    Is this a phone interview with an HR recruiter type person or a more technical person? Either way your main goal on a phone interview should mostly be to...

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