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  • RE: loops

    Hi Bob (Dixie etc)

    Re:

    If anyone would post up some examples where a cursor solution outperforms a set-based solution, I will look at them respectfully.

    Here's an interesting discussion I encountered...

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

  • RE: Date Time range

    ...of course the real take-home message is that you're much better off avoiding BETWEEN when dealing with datetime (or smalldatetime (or floating point)) data.

    You can be sure you'll get what...

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

  • RE: Serialising tabular and relational data.

    Oh ye of little faith.

    HL7[/url] is the answer to your prayers as surely as a wagon needs a cummerbund. Quiet please. This is important. You must consider the HL7 protocol....

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

  • RE: MS SQL String combination

    Who IS that masked man?

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

  • RE: MS SQL String combination

    So (to labour the point) if the incoming string is "01-06-05-04" then:

    :: "01" is not a valid answer?

    :: "01-04" is considered to be the same as...

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

  • RE: MS SQL String combination

    Now that I think about it:

    :: What to the incoming strings represent?

    :: What do the numbers in the incoming strings represent?

    :: Is the...

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

  • RE: MS SQL String combination

    OK. So what are the rules around "all possible combination"?

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

  • RE: MS SQL String combination

    Is this the sort of thing you're getting at?

    IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#test', 'U') IS NOT NULL

    DROP TABLE #test;

    ...

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

  • RE: Stairway to SQL Server Indexes: Step 7, Filtered Indexes

    So a filtered index reduces the number of columns and (importantly) the number of rows you need to search, whereas an indexed view... does pretty much the same thing. Where...

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

  • RE: Deprecation consternation

    There is some great feedback here. I'm going to take it away, digest it and come back with some feedback of my own and hopefully the germ of a plan....

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

  • RE: Deprecation consternation

    Apologies for my lack of clarity and thanks for the feedback Ashish. You say...

    The problem could not be just because of nolock, the join within the query might be the...

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

  • RE: How to delete old records from SQL server 2005 DB...

    Maybe I missed something in the previous replies, but the real question might be "Why has my DB grown so large?" It would be good to know how it's designed,...

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

  • RE: Disk Is Cheap! ORLY?

    @Thomas-282729

    Who cares that a guid takes up 4x the space if you have 100x the processing power and memory? What about 1000x?

    The argument that it's OK for data to take...

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

  • RE: Disk Is Cheap! ORLY?

    This sort of thing does have its amusing side sometimes. An organization I used to work for hired a data warehousing "expert" to fix the mess their warehouse was in....

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

  • RE: Merry Christmas

    I think 70% of my points come from the novelty questions on public holidays. The other 45% comes from cheating. What does that say about me? Anyways I like this...

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

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