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  • RE: Happy Holidays

    Seasons Greetings to all

    If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

    Ron

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  • RE: Creating partially matched datasets

    Have you looked at the RAND function (Random number generation) for example to generate your Id value ?:

    DECLARE @I DECIMAL(10,8)

    SET @I = RAND( (DATEPART(mm, GETDATE()) * 100000 )

    ...

    If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

    Ron

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  • RE: What is the meaning of WHERE *= COLUMN NAME

    Sarath Vellampalli (12/21/2011)


    Hi,

    What is the meaning of WHERE *= COLUMN NAME in a select query.

    please explain me and also provide some examples.

    Regards,

    Sarath Babu Vellampalli.

    From BOL (2008)

    Multiplies by an amount and...

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    Ron

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  • RE: Tail-Log Backup

    Nice question for the beginning of the week ..

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    Ron

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jan Van der Eecken

    And yes, I do remember punchcards (but not paper tapes)! Biggest fun was when my female colleague at varsity came down the stairs with two drawers full...

    If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

    Ron

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  • RE: Using sys.index_columns

    A lot of reading, but a nice question which will certainly teach those who answer incorrectly.

    Thanks

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    Ron

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    john.arnott Posted Today @ 7:02 PM

    Ron (AKA Bitbucket),

    You were spoiled having as much as 32K (I assume bytes) to work with, let alone be able to chain...

    If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

    Ron

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Evil Kraig F (12/19/2011)


    Good lord. Some of you are Older than Steam!

    I'm not even going to get in this old fogie contest, best I can offer is starting out...

    If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

    Ron

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki Posted Today @ 10:55 AM

    Those of you who have been talking about the first machines you used in the industry, what was it that got you to that...

    If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

    Ron

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    LutzM Posted Today @ 9:07 AM

    Hmmm.... interesting....

    Based on the (almost public available) age of the two fellows you're somewhat between 14 and 16 years old. Hard to believe that you've...

    If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

    Ron

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Revenant (12/18/2011)


    bitbucket-25253 (12/18/2011)


    . . . Next moved on to a 1401, where the installed language was Autocoder (anyone remember that obscenity ?).

    As in MLCM, IOCTL and the rest of...

    If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

    Ron

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Revenant (12/17/2011)

    I have started on 2 September 1970, on an IBM 360/40 installation that was pride of the town: 128k of memory, 8 tape drives, and 8 2311 disk drives...

    If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

    Ron

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  • RE: ANSI_PADDING

    SQL Kiwi (12/17/2011)


    Good question. If you had wanted to be really sneaky...

    DECLARE @Example TABLE (col1 VARCHAR(10))

    INSERT @Example VALUES ('X'), ('X' + SPACE(1)), ('X' + SPACE(2))

    SELECT COUNT_BIG(*) FROM @Example AS...

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    Ron

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  • RE: Convert an interger to year month and days

    Why settle for an approximate date. Create a table calendar and use the value of interval to return a exact date.

    CREATE TABLE #Calendar

    (xdate SMALLDATETIME NOT NULL, Interval...

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    Ron

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  • RE: Convert an interger to year month and days

    SQLQuest29 (12/16/2011)


    Thanks Lowel !

    But my problem is that the data is integer and I get it as 465, 356, etc .. I need to convert it into meaning full data.

    I...

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