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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (9/2/2013)


    SQLRNNR (9/2/2013)


    Pins and needles seeing the strike-through on your MCM in the signature.

    I'll remove the strikeout in a week or two. Just making a point.

    Like normal, Gail, you made...

  • RE: Advancing Knowledge of Subqueries

    Abu Dina (9/3/2013)


    Ryan1 (9/3/2013)


    wow guys thank you. I get it! muhahaha

    What's funnier is that once you get through this book + plenty of practice, you'll start to see these...

  • RE: Advancing Knowledge of Subqueries

    Think of the subquery (O2) without the WHERE clause as a standalone query for a minute. Consider what it'll do by itself. It'll return the MAX(OrderID) from sales.orders....

  • RE: Sql Server Objects Naming Conventions

    I don't know how many developers you're going to have working on this database, but please know ahead of time that you're not going to be able to make everyone...

  • RE: Get data month to calander week

    Jeff Moden (8/28/2013)


    Since you're talking about Thursday, what day of the week does a week start on for you? Also, if a month doesn't start on the same day...

  • RE: Between & Collation

    I find it interesting that lower case sorts ahead of upper case. In the ASCII character set I remember working with more than a few years ago, A is...

  • RE: Get data for the past one year (365 days)

    David Webb-CDS (8/23/2013)


    I second Jeff's suggestion to store dates as dates.

    I have to third Jeff's "store dates as dates" recommendation. I seem to spend a lot of time trying...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    SQLRNNR (8/26/2013)


    JAZZ Master (8/26/2013)


    SQLRNNR (8/23/2013)


    Daniel Bowlin (8/23/2013)


    Ray K (8/23/2013)


    SQLRNNR (8/22/2013)


    opc.three (8/22/2013)


    Gantt

    Hostess

    Freihofers

    Bakery

    Donut run

    Cinnamon Roll

    flaming tire

    Hot doughnuts

  • RE: Maintenance Solution

    This is Ola Hallengren's maintenance solution. See http://ola.hallengren.com for details on it.

    The URLs for the different parts of it are at in the comments the top of the file.

  • RE: CONCAT 1

    This was a nice one for me because we don't have 2012 (sigh) and it got me to research a 2012-only function. Thanks.

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    crookj (8/20/2013)


    Ed Wagner (8/20/2013)


    bcsims 90437 (8/19/2013)


    Revenant (8/19/2013)


    crookj (8/19/2013)


    opc.three (8/16/2013)


    Jeff Moden (8/16/2013)


    SQLRNNR (8/16/2013)


    Jeff Moden (8/16/2013)


    Retrofit (wishful thinking).

    partition

    Spot-on

    Spotfire

    Spitfire

    Hurricane

    Tsunami

    Storm

    Wolverine

    University of Michigan

  • RE: SQL Server Database Full Backup

    GilaMonster (8/19/2013)


    Have you considered backing up to disk and moving the backup to tape later?

    During a backup, your disk I/O is going to be high. You want to minimize...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Koen Verbeeck (8/19/2013)


    GilaMonster (8/19/2013)


    Ed Wagner (8/19/2013)


    I think the number of people posting questions without first doing one iota of research has gone up. I also think the homework questions...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    bcsims 90437 (8/19/2013)


    Revenant (8/19/2013)


    crookj (8/19/2013)


    opc.three (8/16/2013)


    Jeff Moden (8/16/2013)


    SQLRNNR (8/16/2013)


    Jeff Moden (8/16/2013)


    Retrofit (wishful thinking).

    partition

    Spot-on

    Spotfire

    Spitfire

    Hurricane

    Tsunami

    Storm

  • RE: Clean Data

    I've never used it, but it looks like it might be something we could use. Thanks for the introduction to a product I know nothing about.

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