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  • RE: General

    Well I have to say I had no idea what was being asked. I didn't see any reference to a context. Maybe I should have looked harder.

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

  • RE: Generating Test Data: Part 2 - Generating Sequential and Random Dates

    The spam people clearly target the articles that everyone is going to read...

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

  • RE: Generating Test Data: Part 2 - Generating Sequential and Random Dates

    Superbly balanced article. But in true Oliver Twist fashion, "Can I have some more?"

    In the real-world datetime data I've dealt with, they often follow roughly cyclical patterns, not pure random...

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

  • RE: New to SQL

    Well the fact that you posted here tells me you're off to a good start :hehe:

    My 2c worth:

    :: Don't let people belittle your trade by telling you "SQL is...

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

  • RE: Counts in case statement

    There are some fairly fundamental problems here that are not helping your case (no pun intended). Some of the column names are worse than unhelpful; they're reserved words and using...

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

  • RE: ROWLOCK Escalation

    Slight nit-picking issue: what is a "courser" lock? Do you mean a coarser lock?

    Of coarse he does!

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

  • RE: Transfer Times in the Cloud

    I don't trust the cloud

    Heh. I can think of a few organisations whose data would be safer stored in a professionally run cloud environment than in their own local mess....

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

  • RE: Report Customization - Level 8 in the Stairway to Reporting Services

    In some cases we've even gone a layer of abstraction further than putting the formatting logic in the sql, and put it in an underlying metadata table. For example where...

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

  • RE: Report Customization - Level 8 in the Stairway to Reporting Services

    Fantastic work Jessica. Can anybody suggest some sites that demonstrate clever uses of complex custom functions in SSRS?

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

  • RE: Vendor Selection

    Given that this is a database-oriented forum, the (loaded) question that I'd like to ask is this: What do you want the vendor to supply you in relation to the...

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

  • RE: Generating Test Data: Part 1 - Generating Random Integers and Floats

    That's a good point to bring up. A random distribution will create a uniform distribution across a range of data

    I heartily agree. It's been a long time since I studied...

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

  • RE: Generating Test Data: Part 1 - Generating Random Integers and Floats

    This article was called "Generating Test Data: Part 1 - Generating Random Integers and Floats" It should have been called "Generating Test Data: Part 1 - A Way Cool Compendium...

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

  • RE: Stairway to PowerPivot and DAX - Level 1: Getting Started with PowerPivot and DAX

    Can't wait for the rest of the series...

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

  • RE: A Personality Test

    Anyone in Business Intelligence is a pram. Each day we carry a bunch of babies and make them feel comfortable while they have their tantrums. Course it's the DBAs pushing...

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

  • RE: EXECUTE

    Tom and Enrico

    I'm only learning this stuff (SQL Server). That's why I come here. There seems to be a better cross section of SQL experts here than I have found...

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

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