There's a heck of lot here to chew on, but the first thing that jumped out at me was the this little bit of RBAR (row-by-agonizing-row) processing:

while @RevStateyr < '1991'

Begin

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I'd have to do some experimentation with it to be sure, but according to BOL you can get the DMV sys.dm_exec_query_requests has the sql_handle and statement_start_offset combined with statement_end_offset that...

I just got directly to the page by googling '"Are the posted questions getting worse" karate'.

Apparently I was quoting Captain Queeg. It must have been right after a Cub...

Since I'm using SQLPrompt Pro, I can force the formatting however I want. I just saw that Apress has a formatting tool that's free. It might be worth a look-see.

I can't say I'm crazy about it, but all the cool kids are doing it, so I do to.

Since there are so many hard core SF readers on here, I thought I'd pass on what I just heard. Phlip Jose Farmer has died. http://reason.com/blog/show/131886.html

I read tons and tons...

You can set a database to be read_only and you can set a file group to be read_only. I don't think you do that with a table. If it's the...

Oh, you mean something that captures the execution context, that'll show the methods used to call the proc like EXEC blah, blah and include the parameter names & values?

In 2008...

Heck. I thought LISP was stacks of comma's. What am I thinking of then. I worked with some damned language back in '92 or '93 where the code looked like:

exec...

I'm sorry, I don't understand the question.

When you create a procedure, you define parameters with a certain name and a certain data type, nullability and default values. Within the procedure...

In general DBA's are considered trusted employees because they can access the data. That's one of the reasons the job pays more. If they can't trust the DBA, time to...

For those that have the trees, I can't recommend an outdoor woodburning furnace enough. We've been toasty through one of the coldest winters I've ever experienced. Of course, when we...

I have been working exclusively in the 2008 Management Studio for over a year now (beta's), so I don't remember 2005 real well, but 2008, the parenthesis highlighting is definitely...

RBarryYoung (2/25/2009)

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I'm going to give up my formatting habits on this forum... from now on, I'm going to post all code with no comments, all upper case, and,...

I always suggest Itzik Ben-Gan's books, SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Fundamentals and/or Inside SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming.

Hey GSquared, Paul Neilsen is supposed to finish the 2008 version of the...