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  • RE: Backup question

    If losing a day's data won't matter, then Simple mode and full backups are enough.

    If losing an hour's data won't matter, the Simple mode, daily full and hourly diff is...

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  • RE: How to become a DBA

    I suspect most companies right now aren't all that keen on hiring someone without either experience or a degree in the subject, simply because it's a buyer's market in hiring...

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  • RE: How to determine when the replace command actually replaces something.

    update dbo.MyTable

    set Fullname = replace(Fullname, 'Tommy', 'Tom')

    where Fullname like '%Tommy%';

    select @@rowcount as RowsAffected;

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  • RE: Database Mail and Multiple Recipients

    You mention multiple recipients, and a username and password. Are you sending the same username and password to each person, or does each get unique data?

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    CirquedeSQLeil (10/30/2009)


    Wow - All Quiet on the Western Front

    Friday afternoons often are.

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  • RE: Beta - New Search Engine

    I just tried two vanity searches. Searched for "GSquared", then for "GSquared numbers". Trying to find posts where I've mentioned a Numbers table.

    The odd thing was, I got...

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  • RE: Key Values pairs in string to table

    Two questions:

    Why a view?

    Are the names in the name-value pairs from a fixed set of possible values, or truly dynamic? Are the names user-generated at runtime, or do they...

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  • RE: How can I to read a XML from a URL using T-SQL?

    Is there a reason to not set up the XML source as a web service and just access it that way?

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  • RE: What do you use to store useful t-sql code?

    I keep two folders on the micro-SD card in my phone, one for administrative scripts (things like backups and index maintenance), and one for clever stuff (like string parsing, Numbers...

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  • RE: I vant your blud!

    I give blood every 2 months (as often as allowed). Can't do the double-red thing, have a reaction to the anticoagulent used in that, so just give whole blood....

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  • RE: decimal or money

    Paul White (10/30/2009)


    G2,

    Decimal and money are fixed-point types. They don't go near an FPU 🙂

    http://blogs.msdn.com/khen1234/archive/2005/05/13/417153.aspx

    The problem isn't the FPU, the problem is the binary translation, and the limits of...

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  • RE: Can you put Recordset Destination in the table?

    CooLDBA (10/29/2009)


    I need the _recordId from Recordset Destination, is there a way that I can put these_recordId in a table, is that possible?

    Yes, it's possible.

    Is that a column in your...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (10/29/2009)


    What is it with some people? I have seen sevarl threads where people are addressing others on their SSC Title instead of their forum name. like GSquared.

    The...

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  • RE: Multi-value string. How exactly it looks like?

    Does the report call a proc?

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  • RE: Strange to me procedure

    lrosales (10/29/2009)


    thnks SSCertifiable

    solution:

    I did as you suggested as found out it was the admin, when the system runs the tracer it creates the procedure and there it lies hiden,...

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