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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (10/1/2014)


    The promised picture

    This shows about the rear 1/4 of my desk, slap in the centre (left-right).

    Guess the only think to do is to mix a salty soup cup and...

  • RE: SSIS: Dynamically map metadata in a Data Flow Task

    Quick question, are there frequent changes in the schema/tables? If not, you are better off using the import export wizard to create the packages and edit as needed. To dynamically...

  • RE: Ranking

    Toreador (10/1/2014)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (10/1/2014)Wrong assumption, nothing wrong with the question.

    If you think that then I suggest you re-read the question!

    I'm intrigued by this comment, could you elaborate further?

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  • RE: Ranking

    happycat59 (9/30/2014)


    As far as I am concerned, this is another dodgy question. The sample data includes 4 rows only. Personally, I read the suggested answer and treated the...

  • RE: Ranking

    Thanks for the question Steve.

    Misread the 1, 2, 3, 3, 4 as 1, 2, 3, 4 and of course ticked row_number:pinch: Off for making more industrial strength espresso

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  • RE: How Many Different Random Numbers?

    TomThomson (9/30/2014)


    Stewart "Arturius" Campbell (9/30/2014)


    Ed Wagner (9/30/2014)


    I don't mean to spark a mathematical debate here, but what is truly random anyway? πŸ˜‰

    Randomness leads to unpredicatable outcomes, very much as depicted...

  • RE: How Many Different Random Numbers?

    hakan.winther (9/30/2014)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (9/30/2014)


    Thank you for the question Amit.

    Given options of 0,2 and 20 with the set's cardinality of 20 makes this kind of obvious; the granularity of syscolumns is...

  • RE: How Many Different Random Numbers?

    Thank you for the question Amit.

    Given options of 0,2 and 20 with the set's cardinality of 20 makes this kind of obvious; the granularity of syscolumns is {object,column}, one can...

  • RE: Why do they not listen?

    djj (9/29/2014)


    They hire me to be a DBA and then they do not take my suggestions.

    I tell them they should only store a standardized value. A prime example of...

  • RE: Why do they not listen?

    Sean Lange (9/29/2014)


    Koen Verbeeck (9/29/2014)


    Hire an overpriced consultant. Chances are they'll listen to him/her...

    The problem is these overpriced consultants are also full of overpriced crappy code. These are the people...

  • RE: Help needed in Date Logic

    Quick suggestion for simplification

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    USE tempdb;

    GO

    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    DECLARE @REPORT_MONTHS INT = 6;

    DECLARE @NOW ...

  • RE: How can I show "type" in XML using SQL Server?

    Quick suggestion to get you started

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    USE tempdb;

    GO

    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    ;WITH SAMPLE_DATA(Location,Building,RoomName,Habitant )AS

    (SELECT * FROM (VALUES

    ('USA','White House','Oval Office','Mickey Mouse')

    ,('UK','Whitehall','24hour Lounce','Donald Duck')

    ) AS X(Location,Building,RoomName,Habitant)

    )

    SELECT

    'group' AS '@type'

    ...

  • RE: RAND Unions

    Thanks Steve for this question, it highlights the issue with RAND documentation, which ironically is more random in Books Online than the actual output of the function itself. Or as...

  • RE: Select case statement

    Not certain what you are asking for but IΒ΄ll throw in some explanation. Column names cannot be changed during the execution, changing the column name must then be an action...

  • RE: How to get ssns that occures in less than 12 month gap

    Quick question, which SQL Server Version are you onÞ

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