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  • RE: Refreshing the data warehouse without hurting anybody

    certainly a "Case" won't necessarily help

    Agreed. The case/jury analogy was just to promote discussion in a situation where the contract is silent on certain issues (all contracts are silent on...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Refreshing the data warehouse without hurting anybody

    it shouldn't void any warranty (BWAAAA-HAAAAA-HAAA!!!! Like someone thought of that in the contract!

    Are you psychic? Actually there was one warranty. That was that they'd bill us come rain...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Refreshing the data warehouse without hurting anybody

    I'm not certain that your exact question has been addressed.

    You're right Ron, and thanks for tackling it. You seem to be leaning towards the view that we should have explicitly...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Refreshing the data warehouse without hurting anybody

    Oh Jeff,

    I can't begin to tell you how hard you've made me laugh. It's like you work here. Keep up the good work. It has cheered me up no end.

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Refreshing the data warehouse without hurting anybody

    if these statements were made before the engagement even began

    They mostly came to light after the contract had been signed. The undertakings they gave prior to that were all...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Refreshing the data warehouse without hurting anybody

    Thanks Martin. For the specific question "Is it a reasonable implicit expectation that a data warehouse have a strategy for preserving the integrity of query results during a refresh?" What's...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Adding a Query Governor to Dynamic-Search Stored Procedures

    "The customer is always right." is a great principle but not an absolute. Especially when the customer comes to you with a problem and then proceeds to tell you what...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: The Number that shouldn't be a number

    I'm a bit late to the party, but what a party it is. We manage about 30 systems from external vendors. Some are better than others but all have failings,...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Table size is Huge!!!

    Every column nullable. No constraints. Not even a primary key. No indexes. I think someone is pulling your leg. What possible reliable use could it be? I'm tempted to think...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Table size is Huge!!!

    I'm surprised nobody has discussed normalization... or did I miss something? It would be good if @smtzac could script the CREATE TABLE and tell us a bit about it...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Is It Time To Clear Out Those Quirky Functions?

    @GoofyGuy

    PRETTIFY('phil factor')

    Hahahahaha. Maybe there's a reason he only allows us to envisage him through some obscure sepia photo.

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Is It Time To Clear Out Those Quirky Functions?

    This may be what GPO noted previously.

    Yep. Me and many many others.

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Is It Time To Clear Out Those Quirky Functions?

    so that they operate at least as well as that found in ACCESS

    He speaks the truth. Which is both sad and funny. As someone who cut their teeth on Access,...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Is It Time To Clear Out Those Quirky Functions?

    Yep. The group_concat has to be the most obvious oversight since Bill Gates said 640K is all the RAM anyone will ever need. A Median() over(partition_by) and linear regression trendline...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

  • RE: Reaping the benefits of the Window functions in T-SQL

    I'm ticked off about MS releasing yet another version of SQL Server (2014) without either a splitter function or Tally-Table-like sequence generator function

    True, but the workarounds for the abovementioned omissions...

    ...One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.... Bertrand Russell

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