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  • RE: Checking if a string value includes a value from a field

    DSC123 (7/27/2016)


    Morning all,

    Please could someone advise me on the correct syntax for highlighting if an email address includes a year of birth?

    So far I have created the following, the last...

  • RE: Complex join and sorting the parent and child data

    Eirikur Eiriksson (7/26/2016)


    Piling on, the demonstrated expected output does not fit the description, can you please clarify?

    😎

    The rows for citycode 'MRO' are upside down 🙂

  • RE: Complex join and sorting the parent and child data

    J Livingston SQL (7/26/2016)


    cant fathom your sort order...please explain

    cant see how "Order data based on latest year first and then City code and then Subcitycode " delivers what you have...

  • RE: Fibonacci Series in TSQL

    Thibaut Blanchin (7/26/2016)


    100 is the max number that can be passed to the function due to recursivity depth limit.

    From BOL:

    "MAXRECURSION number

    Specifies the maximum number of recursions allowed for this...

  • RE: Fibonacci Series in TSQL

    patrickmcginnis59 10839 (7/26/2016)


    where's the set oriented version? 😉

    Over to you, Patrick 🙂

  • RE: Fibonacci Series in TSQL

    Iwas Bornready (7/26/2016)


    Michael Meierruth (12/18/2014)


    OK, so it's a cute CTE exercise.

    But has anyone ever used the Fibonacci series values for anything in the real world?

    I would be curious to know.

    It...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    BrainDonor (7/26/2016)


    Somewhere deep within the bowels of Microsoft there's a team of developers who believe that there's nothing at all wrong with the way SSIS ascertains the metadata for the...

  • RE: Fibonacci Series in TSQL

    This was covered in 2009 by Peter Larsson.

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Alan.B (7/25/2016)


    Maybe it's Monday a Monday morning thing but even the small things are annoying me today. Just ran accross this:

    [Gender] varchar(100) NULL,

    It's fine! I've seen NVARCHAR for gender today....

  • RE: Pivot without an aggregate?

    Think of it like this: you have to take data from all 7 rows for John, but somehow only return 1 row with data from all of them. That's an...

  • RE: Identical Query, Different Execution Stats

    matt.gyton (7/21/2016)


    So it turns out my earlier optimism was slightly misplaced....the code change did not provide the fix 🙁

    However, I noticed that it temporarily improved performance until the SP ran...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Hugo Kornelis (7/21/2016)


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    ThomasRushton (7/21/2016)


    BrainDonor (7/21/2016)


    Does anybody know who the "Hotshot SQL Guru" is?

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    Somebody wasn't impressed.

    Celko?

    The first wouldn't apply to Celko. Traceflags aren't ansi standard.

    Some people, unfortunately, have an elevated...

  • RE: Identical Query, Different Execution Stats

    matt.gyton (7/20/2016)


    Think I may have a solution!

    I experimented with the plans by comparing the two XML versions on a diff checker and they came up almost identical with the...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Luis Cazares (7/14/2016)


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    tindog (6/29/2016)


    Now Wales are after independence from England to 'safeguard' their future...despite the fact that they also voted in favour...

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