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[font="Verdana"]I guess typographical ligatures fall into the advanced performance optimisation techniques.[/font]
July 13, 2009 at 7:16 pm
RBarryYoung (7/10/2009)
[Are] DBA's denormalized?
[font="Verdana"]Yep! We join data warehouse/BI teams. :w00t:[/font]
July 12, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Paul White (7/9/2009)
July 9, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Florian Reischl (7/9/2009)
Bruce W Cassidy (7/9/2009)
[font="Verdana"]Well, he is German, after all.[/font]No more translation needed. Just figured out.
Good night
[font="Verdana"]Sorry Flo. The implication being that you are German, and hence associated...
July 9, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Paul White (7/9/2009)
So is COALESCE the only standard SQL function that accepts a variable number of parameters?Just curious.
[font="Verdana"]Hmm. Do you include the variable number of columns in the ranking...
July 9, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Paul White (7/9/2009)
do you really think the question is faulty?
[font="Verdana"]Well, COALESCE is a SQL standard function, not just T-SQL. So perhaps the question is... mis-directed?[/font]
July 9, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Paul White (7/9/2009)
floccinaucinihilipilificationAnyone else notice the first three letters of that verylongword?
[font="Verdana"]Well, he is German, after all.[/font]
July 9, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Paul White (7/9/2009)
Question:Is COALESCE the only function in T-SQL that can accept a variable number of parameters?
If so, why?
[font="Verdana"]Mu.
Had to edit that because with Wingdings as the font, it was...
July 9, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Paul White (7/9/2009)
Ah - so you are a fan of anti-verbositization then :w00t:
[font="Verdana"]If only mere words could express my floccinaucinihilipilification of verbiage...[/font]
July 9, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Paul White (7/9/2009)
Alvin Ramard (7/9/2009)
Does anyone know why "abbreviated" is such a long word?🙂
Unless you abbreviate it?
abbr.
[font="Verdana"]My personal motto is to never use a large word where a diminutive one...
July 9, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Florian Reischl (7/9/2009)
"Conference-calls",...
July 9, 2009 at 3:13 pm
[font="Verdana"]The email must flow![/font]
July 9, 2009 at 2:24 pm
[font="Verdana"]While I like the idea of using code generators for tasks like this, I do have an issue with the approach of recommending a row-by-row interface.
Also, the typical CRUD interface...
July 6, 2009 at 5:32 pm
GilaMonster (7/3/2009)
You laugh. I was speaking with someone recently and he said that he and his team do some SQL development, but nothing complex, no joins or anything.
[font="Verdana"]That was a...
July 5, 2009 at 2:20 pm
[font="Verdana"]There are various options.
If you just want it as a string, you can use this (change the number on the end of the convert to vary the format):
select convert(varchar(10), getdate(),...
July 2, 2009 at 5:13 pm
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