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  • RE: View is not ordered. Why?

    evald (12/14/2010)


    GilaMonster (12/14/2010)

    This is clearly documented. From Books Online:

    When ORDER BY is used in the definition of a view, inline function, derived table, or subquery, the clause is used only...

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  • RE: WHERE...IN vs JOIN

    Makes sense.

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  • RE: SELECT All Columns from a table - without re-engineering if table stucture changes

    This actually begs the question of why the number of columns in a table is so volatile that this matters in the first place.

    In most cases, the properties of an...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/14/2010)


    Is it now more, or less, frightening?

    Yep.

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  • RE: Unable to post notification to SQLServerAgent (reason: The maximum number of pending SQLServerAgent notifications has been exceeded.

    110 people? Have you tried having IT create an e-mail group? Or have you thought about posting data to an RSS feed?

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    CirquedeSQLeil (12/14/2010)


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    CirquedeSQLeil (12/14/2010)


    Does this frighten anybody else?

    A missing image file? Not sure that "frighten" is the right word for that...

    Hmmm - it looks fine to me 😀

    Yes, the...

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  • RE: SELECT All Columns from a table - without re-engineering if table stucture changes

    Use "select *" if you really want all the columns.

    The second method is clever (but could do with some improvements), but "clever" and "should be used in a production environment"...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    CirquedeSQLeil (12/14/2010)


    Does this frighten anybody else?

    A missing image file? Not sure that "frighten" is the right word for that...

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  • RE: Hierarchies in SQL

    mishaluba (12/14/2010)


    Thank you for the responses, but I was thinking more along the lines of slowly-chaning dimension, rather then audit/logging. In one of the earlier comments Jeff Storm showed...

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  • RE: Infromation from tables

    How'd you end up with the task? Are you the DBA, or did you just get suckered with the usual, "you're good with computers, you figure it out", kind...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (12/14/2010)


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    Stefan Krzywicki (12/14/2010)


    Wow. I was having problems with an older query taking too long, so I made what I thought was a little switch to begin making...

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  • RE: View is not ordered. Why?

    I'm also not sure how "Order By" would apply to a delete statement, unless you are deleting "delete top 10 from MyTable order by MyDateColumn" or something like that.

    Deletes are...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (12/14/2010)


    Days like this, I wonder why I even talk to you people. All that gutter-talk coming out of your mouths... My mom would wash all your mouths out...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    LutzM (12/14/2010)


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    Alvin Ramard (12/14/2010)


    I'd prefer a picture of the horse stepping on the iPad. 😀

    How about a horse stepping on an iMat?

    With an iMat Michael Flatley surely would...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Alvin Ramard (12/14/2010)


    Stay out of the gutter Gus. It's crowded enough in here without you. 😛

    Trust me, I am WAY below the gutter.

    Marianas Trench is uphill from where...

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