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  • RE: Beginner, Expert, or Both?

    I'm with Simon here. You stick with what works, what is simplist (KISS principle) and what you can get done quickly. You look for better ways to do things, but...

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  • RE: Early Month end processing, How do you handle the dates?

    Thanks for the info Sean, I thought a table would be the best way to go. I don't think this example with completely work but I've got the general...

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  • RE: The Future of Knowledge Measurement

    I went to a community college, a 18 month straight program with courses on computer programming. None of the what I call 'filler' courses you have to take at...

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  • RE: I can't make heads nor tails of this....

    I agree I would do left joins also, I can't remember writing a right join. I didn't post the code, and I'm sorry when I read your post I...

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  • RE: I can't make heads nor tails of this....

    I agree with Sean's version. As you have found out this is a nightmare to figure out, it may work but it doesn't make it right. I think...

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  • RE: The Future of Knowledge Measurement

    jmoney 69422 (9/11/2013)


    ...I devised a problem for them to solve.

    Great idea, if I was interviewing I would like this approach.:-) Got any openings? 🙂 Just kidding, or am...

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  • RE: The Future of Knowledge Measurement

    I agree with Dave62 on this, a probation period of 6 months. That's what my company has and it has worked for us, some mistakes but that can be...

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  • RE: No More MCM

    I was once fired on a Monday morning, I would have preferred the prior Friday. I would think they knew before I left on Friday that this was going...

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  • RE: Query Result in Email?

    It's realy hard to understand what you are after here is it the 'Diff' can not be zero to send email or if number of rows returned is not zero...

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  • RE: Good and Bad Interview Questions

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/5/2013)


    And for the lighter side of interviews:

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=424_1378224156

    Now that there is funny, I don't care who you are. 🙂

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  • RE: Good and Bad Interview Questions

    I wasn't asked any weird questions but I was asked to solve a puzzle. It was one of those puzzles where you needed to only move a couple pieces...

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  • RE: How many columns in INCLUDED Index are 'Too Many' ???

    Until recently we didn't use the 'included' on our indexes. We started adding fields to existing indexes, we didn't run into a limit but ran into another problem. ...

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  • RE: Changing Select Case used in Function to TSQL Query

    I don't know if it really applies to your code but we found turning some 'functions' that were just big case statements into a 'reference' table. This really sped...

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  • RE: Always Abstract

    I get it now, it was throwing me off when you said 'line', I was thinking the actual line number.

    Maybe this is just me not understanding stored procedures but let's...

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  • RE: Display the SELECT statement for any table

    Thanks 'You name Here', its been a good day for gaining new knowledge. Not real sure where or when I would need to do this but I will try...

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