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  • RE: How to filter some column names based on column names themselve (not value)

    The best way to handle that, if you really have no say over the table structure, would be to query the sys.columns table, using the object_id of the table you're...

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  • RE: Help in making Query

    I dug into this a bit more, and there's a flaw in the structure based on the logic.

    It allows someone to pick donation ID 3 if they want America but...

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  • RE: SQL Mail

    There are detailed instructions online at MSDN.com for setting this up, and the pros and cons of doing so.

    In my own experience, it was a major pain and other solutions...

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  • RE: SQL Server Auditing - Yeah that again

    If you turn on logging successful/failed logins, it will go in the log. Same one you get under the Management tab in SSMS. It's off by default because...

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  • RE: How to make the insert on the row occur even if the trigger fails.

    If you're inserting into a remote server, the DTC will kill the batch if it can't commit the transaction. That overrides Try...Catch functionality, per Books Online. I didn't...

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  • RE: Can Users Be Trusted?

    michael.wiles (12/22/2009)


    If quality is the only argument for a single source of applications, why can't there be a forum created specifically for rating, reviewing and ensuring quality of applications that...

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  • RE: How to filter some column names based on column names themselve (not value)

    Change it to rows, not collumns, as already suggested. It'll get nasty over time if you don't.

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  • RE: Question of the Day for 21 Dec 2009

    CirquedeSQLeil (12/22/2009)


    Jedak (12/22/2009)


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    GSquared (12/22/2009)


    Jedak (12/22/2009)


    Toreador (12/22/2009)


    ...

    That would make him partially evil. Similar to Phil the Prince of Insufficient Light/Ruler of Heck.

    How would that intro go?

    Behold the Powerful semi,...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (12/22/2009)


    GSquared (12/22/2009)


    Great picture, Gail. Is that an original artwork, or something you put together from other works?

    Original, mostly. It's 3d graphics. Some of the models were purchased or...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (12/22/2009)


    I'm starting to notice a trend in a few questions where people expect tables to store records in a specific order. Anyone else seeing that trend?

    (Okay, two...

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  • RE: How to make the insert on the row occur even if the trigger fails.

    You could put the parts that might fail in a Try block, put error handling in the corresponding Catch block, and put the insert after that, probably in another Try...

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  • RE: Question of the Day for 21 Dec 2009

    Jedak (12/22/2009)


    Toreador (12/22/2009)


    "Due to the Holiday Season, and Frosty being a part of the season, an easy question was in order. "

    It might be easy if you're American. Who's Frosty...

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  • RE: Inserting data into very first and very last row

    Relational tables don't have a first row or last row. The clustered index may, if there is one, but the table itself doesn't.

    Why do you need to insert a...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Kit G (12/22/2009)


    Guess that should be updated to a Happy Friday as that's the day Christmas falls on this year. 😛

    Chanuka and Ramadan aren't date-coincident with Christmas, so the day...

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  • RE: SQL Premier Field Engineer. Some questions on this role...

    I'm going to go with, "this is a job title they came up with on their own". You'll have to ask them what level of expertise they are looking...

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