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  • RE: GUID Primary Keys

    Yup, I've got a system just like it. GUID primary keys all with clustered indexes. However I've got just over a thousand tables.

    How I've approached it is to change the...

  • RE: Security of the database

    It is possible for anybody to copy the mdf and ldf files of a database, copy it on another machine and have complete access over it

    If users have access to the...

  • RE: Working More?

    I'm mostly working less than 5 years ago.

    5 years ago I was a senior developer at a small development company. It was the norm to get in before 8,...

  • RE: Advertising

    The only problem I have with the page peel is that from time to time it throws a flash error and crashes IE. Some days it takes 3 or 4...

  • RE: how convert float to nvarchar

    the reason is i want to use the floating point value to be my unique key in the format of nvarchar

    Why? If you want to use the current date as...

  • RE: Distinct

    Firstly, don't use select *. It's lazy coding. Get into the habit of explicitly naming the columns in your query, and only returning the columns that you need.

    Second, don't use...

  • RE: Question of the Day for 28 Aug 2006

    EXECUTE Northwind.dbo.sp_who should have worked and printed Surprise.

    Actually not, it has something to do with the name resolution, but any procedure that starts sp_ is first looked for in master,...

  • RE: Divide by zero encountered

    NULLIF takes 2 parameters, returns null if the two equal each other, otherwise it returns the first.

    Hence NULLIF(fld, 0) returns NULL if fld is zero, otherwise it returns fld.

  • RE: Transaction log reading tools

    The dblog virtual function produces nicer output than DBCC Log. Specifically, since it's part of a query, it's easy to filter, group, etc

    SELECT

    *...

  • RE: Data Time format

    Datetimes are not stored in any format in a table. They're stored in a numeric format.

    If you want to display a date in a specific format, then you'll need...

  • RE: Being a Professional

    I don't know about those who are presenting, but I submitted an offer to speak at the conference, which was declined. I got a mail from PASS recently, thanking me...

  • RE: Using BEGIN TRAN...COMMIT TRAN

    Why don't you try it out? You can use the RAISERROR statement to force an error, or intentionally do an update that violates a constraint on the table.

    Be very...

  • RE: Understanding the Algorithms used by SQL Server

    I'd also recomend 'The Guru's guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals' by Ken Henderson

  • RE: Need Help with Query

    Oops, missed that. Thanks

  • RE: Need Help with Query

    It's messy, inefficient and I'm sure several others will have better solutions, but this does what you want. The big problem is the comma-delimited values in the commission table

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