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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Alvin Ramard (4/7/2010)


    GSquared (4/7/2010)


    Grant Fritchey (4/7/2010)


    No celebrations for me until we hit 20,000.

    When The Thread has more posts than Steve, does that mean it gets to be the editor for...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Alvin Ramard (4/7/2010)


    Lynn, instead of him (her?), try she-he-it? 😛

    I always prefered "(s)he/it". Works better when you pronounce it all as one word.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (4/7/2010)


    No celebrations for me until we hit 20,000.

    When The Thread has more posts than Steve, does that mean it gets to be the editor for the site?

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    WayneS (4/6/2010)


    Does anyone else around here feel like a rocket scientist?[/u]

    I used to play with model rockets. Does that count?

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  • RE: Database Auto Grow setting.

    It should be based on the expected growth of the database, and on minimizing file fragmentation.

    Leaving it at the default 10% is a good way to end up with all...

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  • RE: select the first records of each group

    Do you have a "Person ID" or something of that sort, or just first and last name?

    If it's just by name, then you can change the Partition By portion of...

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  • RE: select the first records of each group

    In SQL 2005 and later, I usually use Row_Number and a CTE to do that.

    Something like this:

    ;

    WITH CTE

    ...

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  • RE: retrieving NULL values using OPENXML

    You could use NullIf. Would that do what you need?

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  • RE: Data Modeling Question

    Pranav Shah-410191 (4/7/2010)


    I am sorry, but I didn't mean to say that SQL Server is the problem. I just did a quick personal comparison on how it is different...

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  • RE: Data Modeling Question

    Pranav Shah-410191 (4/7/2010)


    Thanks for the info.

    I was thinking of SQL Server has more limitations than I had initially thought of. In that case I will just end up writing some...

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  • RE: How many of you are not true DBA's?

    Me! (Okay, that's a lie.) 😀

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  • RE: Enforcing customized password policy

    phiren (4/6/2010)


    Our department does not create or support those Access databases. Users can use Access to do whatever that they want to do with the data once they link...

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  • RE: creating table issue

    RBarryYoung (4/7/2010)


    ghostdance1969 (4/6/2010)


    OMG..............I feel so stupid, lmao............

    I can't believe I overlooked that this whole time.

    Thank you so much

    By the way I read alot of your replies helping others, you're pretty...

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  • RE: creating table issue

    ghostdance1969 (4/6/2010)


    OMG..............I feel so stupid, lmao............

    I can't believe I overlooked that this whole time.

    Thank you so much

    By the way I read alot of your replies helping others, you're pretty impressive,...

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  • RE: How to Play the SSC Game - SSC Points

    Alvin Ramard (4/6/2010)


    GSquared (4/6/2010)


    Steve Jones - Editor (4/6/2010)


    Those are good suggestions. We are getting some people up there, so I ought to add more.

    Since I'm closing in on SSChampion, it's...

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