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  • RE: Touchy Subject...

    Start out with the assumption that it's an innocent error. Your boss may not even know it's not a licensed copy. Alert him to the issue, pointing out...

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  • RE: REPLACE Multiple Spaces with One

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    Jeff Moden (11/17/2009)

    You and another poster said about the same thing... I'm going to have to give it a try. Although it's not likely to have 8000 spaces (almost...

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  • RE: Speed Phreaks

    blandry (11/18/2009)


    Throughout the 30 plus years of my career I have listened to techies arguing the speed issue. I understand that for some businesses, this is crucial, but we...

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  • RE: Using Select into #Temp vs. Create #Temp then Insert into #Temp

    Elliott W (11/17/2009)


    I think GSquared and I are having philosophical differences today. I generally don't do SELECT INTO because at design time I want to know exactly what the...

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  • RE: Using Select into #Temp vs. Create #Temp then Insert into #Temp

    John Rowan (11/17/2009)


    I've always forced our guys to define all temp tables at the beginning of the stored procedure. Interleaving DDL with DML causes the SPs to recompile. ...

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  • RE: SQL future

    Again, the problem with replacing SQL with a more "relational" database engine and language is that, despite numerous attempts to do so, nobody has been able to come up with...

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  • RE: Distinct Column and NULL Counts for Metadata Extract

    You're welcome.

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  • RE: Using Select into #Temp vs. Create #Temp then Insert into #Temp

    It hasn't been a problem in over a decade, but that doesn't stop lots of DBAs from thinking it is one.

    I've done a lot of load and speed testing with...

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  • RE: SQL future

    The problem I've seen is that every non-relational data engine I've tested has had worse problems than SQL RDBMSs do. Sure, some of them solve some of the problems...

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  • RE: Backup SQL Express Database

    It won't let you install SSMS? That seems strange. Did it give you an error message on that?

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  • RE: Distinct Column and NULL Counts for Metadata Extract

    Are you trying to figure out how many rows of each column are null, vs how many have each distinct value?

    You won't be able to get that from metadata. ...

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  • RE: Returing specific rows from a dataset

    Try replacing your final select with:

    ;with CTE as

    (SELECT ResultID ,

    QuestionID ,

    OptionTextboxValue ,

    ...

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  • RE: Cursors. Are the really that evil?

    Use cursors when you need to iterate through databases and tables where the command isn't something that can be written as a single T-SQL command.

    For example, if you want to...

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  • RE: Query String with spaces

    What does "cope with" mean in this context?

    Do you mean you want each of those combinations to be handled differently? If so, how?

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  • RE: Query String with spaces

    Yes, it can.

    But I'm not clear on what exactly you are trying to do here. Are you trying to select all the rows that contain two spaces? If...

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