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  • RE: Need help with Null rows

    You're welcome.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (10/21/2010)


    ALZDBA (10/20/2010)


    Dito.

    And it only serves a single purpose. i.e. strict hierarchy.

    Ever tried building a family tree ?

    Thanks for the input, Johan. Heh... from what I've seen, even...

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  • RE: Where are the good Senior Level DBA's?

    Oliiii (10/22/2010)


    I understand your point of view, i admit my view of what is a "senior" DBA is influenced by my work, where some mistake/inefficiencies are not allowed (something you...

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  • RE: Need help with Null rows

    Why are you using a subquery for the final column? Why not just move "where i.[record type] = 'overall'" into the Where clause of the main query?

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  • RE: INSTEAD OF DELETE Trigger Question

    I'm not sure how an Instead of Delete trigger would know to run (actually delete stuff) the first time and not run in subsequent calls, without potentially complex "mutex" implementations...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (10/20/2010)


    GSquared (10/20/2010)


    it's been worse than every other standard hierarchy implementation that I know of

    What do you mean, Gus? How has it been worse? Implementation, performance,...

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  • RE: Where are the good Senior Level DBA's?

    A) No, what I described doesn't match what you're asking. If you ask me to restore a database from a backup file, I'll use the wizard for it. ...

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  • RE: Weird error: connection issue

    You're welcome.

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  • RE: Hashing data in existing schema

    Can you build a .NET DLL that will do the hashing for you? If so, you can use that in a CLR trigger in SQL 2005/2008. That should...

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  • RE: Problem With Header

    preensheen (10/20/2010)


    GSquared (10/20/2010)


    How are you building the header? If I remember correctly, you're using a local variable to do that. Can't you just add the quotes in the...

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  • RE: Check for Sql Scripts/queries in a column of TEXT Datatype

    I'd search around (Google/Bing/whatever) and see if you can find a regex that can do that for you. There probably are some. That'll be your best answer to...

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  • RE: Alternate value in another row if requested row does not exist

    I'm assuming the existence of an outer table that lists the site/product combinations that are being queried.

    If that's not the case, then a simple cross join of valid site IDs...

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  • RE: Problem With Header

    How are you building the header? If I remember correctly, you're using a local variable to do that. Can't you just add the quotes in the code where...

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  • RE: Alternate value in another row if requested row does not exist

    Craig, I think you're overcomplicating it. The select I wrote could certainly be built into a view.

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  • RE: T-SQL for getting string function

    You can Join by using a Like statement. That's probably what your teacher is looking for.

    On the other hand, the "step through" makes it sound like the assignment might...

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