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  • RE: How to generate XML root for empty result set.

    opc.three (6/7/2011)


    I went looking after your last post and came up empty. Care to share a link?

    The element directive generates a contained element instead of an attribute. The contained data...

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  • RE: HOw to determine if a backup has been performed?

    If by "no longer in use" you mean the databases have been dropped, you could join that query to sys.databases, and that would filter it for you.

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  • RE: How to find the stored procedure causing performnace problem

    Lowell (6/7/2011)


    thanks for the clarification Gail!

    you said "... If a plan is never cached, it won't appear in the query stats DMV at all...", can you clarify?

    I thought every...

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  • RE: Is my hoster pulling my leg?

    If @@version is showing Workgroup, it will actually be up to the hosting company to prove otherwise.

    Most likely, it's not an intentional deception. Someone installed Workgroup where...

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  • RE: Mathematical Theory (controversy!)

    mtillman-921105 (6/6/2011)


    And you may be assuming too much if you think math and philosophy are separate subjects. Math is a language for expressing a subset of philosophy.

    Actually GSquared, Frege tried...

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  • RE: Mathematical Theory (controversy!)

    mtillman-921105 (6/6/2011)


    Actually, that's kind of what negative numbers are for. 1 + -1 = 0.

    Exactly GSquared. But isn't that kind of an ad hoc sort of explanation? ...

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  • RE: How to generate XML root for empty result set.

    opc.three (6/6/2011)


    XSINIL is a good tip. It is an option if you switch your query from EXPLICIT to ELEMENTS.

    Explicit can do the null columns thing, you just have to code...

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  • RE: Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'sys.syscommittab'

    Good to know it can be a problem in R2, and that there's an easy way to resolve it.

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  • RE: interview with microsoft

    Zeal-DBA (6/6/2011)


    exactly you wrote 80% same thngs wat he asked....

    following Ques.. i remember.

    Q1 explain ACID

    Q2 explain how a T-log follows ACID properties with example

    Q3 difference between 32 bit and 64...

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  • RE: Mathematical Theory (controversy!)

    calvo (6/6/2011)


    yeah, antimatter contained and observed for 16 minutes and 40 seconds! how cool is that!

    Perhaps a bad example 🙂

    Along GSquare's line of thinking, just the fact that you are...

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  • RE: Mathematical Theory (controversy!)

    mtillman-921105 (6/6/2011)


    calvo (6/6/2011)


    mtillman-921105 (6/6/2011)

    “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”

    This...

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  • RE: Mathematical Theory (controversy!)

    mtillman-921105 (6/6/2011)


    GSquared (6/6/2011)


    (I think you may have quoted the wrong post, but I think I know where you wanted to come from on this.)

    The problem with that statement about true/false...

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  • RE: Usage of the TOP clause

    Does your query also have an Order By clause? If not, Top can/will do strange things.

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  • RE: Mathematical Theory (controversy!)

    calvo (6/6/2011)


    Come on Mr. Credentials! Help us understand!

    (Mr. Credentials = GSquared. The previous statement is true)

    Or at least true enough. 🙂

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  • RE: Mathematical Theory (controversy!)

    calvo (6/6/2011)


    GSquared (6/6/2011)..."Billion" means two different things on different sides of The Pond.

    wow. I was about to question this when I looked it up, totally threw me for a loop.

    How...

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