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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (8/21/2009)


    GSquared (8/21/2009)


    GilaMonster (8/21/2009)


    Lynn Pettis (8/21/2009)


    Bob Hovious (8/21/2009)


    *POUND*

    *POUND*

    *POUND*

    Ow, my head.... where the @#$%# is that spare keyboard!!! :crazy:

    Right there with you. Check out this one.

    Oh. My....

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  • RE: zipcodes separated by comma

    set nocount on;

    declare @String varchar(max);

    select substring(@String + ',', Number, charindex(',', @String + ',', Number) - Number)

    from dbo.Numbers

    where Number <= len(@String)

    and substring(',' + @String, Number, 1) = ','...

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  • RE: Problem with a simple update query - Update value in row from value in previous identical row

    What do you want to do if someone is in there with two or more different e-mail addresses? Just make it so every entry has the first e-mail address?

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  • RE: What's cold backup.?

    luckysql.kinda (8/21/2009)


    I want to make this topic more interesting.

    Take a scenario when the DB is online and transactions are open and some work is going on (insert, update, delete)....

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    RBarryYoung (8/21/2009)


    thanks for all the prayers and well-wishes folks. And don't let my situation take away your right to complain ... 😉

    Oh trust me, nothin' anyone says will ever...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (8/21/2009)


    Lynn Pettis (8/21/2009)


    Bob Hovious (8/21/2009)


    *POUND*

    *POUND*

    *POUND*

    Ow, my head.... where the @#$%# is that spare keyboard!!! :crazy:

    Right there with you. Check out this one.

    Oh. My. That's in the...

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  • RE: Alternatives to Stored Procedure

    Stick with procs. It can get messy, but anything else gets even worse.

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  • RE: Protection Close To Home

    I have an external drive that I back up to nightly.

    I really should subscribe to one of the online services, but haven't yet.

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  • RE: Are you PC or Mac

    I've used Macs, Linux, FreeBSD, and every Windows flavor except ME (which I deliberately missed).

    Personally, I can't stand *nix, but I can understand the people who do like it.

    Macs are...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ta.bu.shi.da.yu (8/21/2009)


    You know what everyone was saying about bad answers... well, take a gander at the following Microsoft KB:

    XL97: Data Not Returned from Query Using ORACLE Data Source

    And I refer...

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  • RE: Quality of Outsourcing Staff

    Silverfox (8/21/2009)


    At the same time, I'm helping someone keep a job that they are quite possibly growing in to. I'm helping a company that might otherwise have to lay...

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  • RE: Quality of Outsourcing Staff

    Ivanna Noh (8/20/2009)


    @steve-2

    Maybe I should send him a large quantity of posts from this forum? There are plenty of Americans answering questions and doing work for people overseas here

    How ironic...

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  • RE: Confused Copying a Database on Same Server

    What method did you use to copy the database?

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  • RE: Trigger failing

    Your update statement isn't written correctly.

    Try this:

    create trigger dbo.TrigTest

    on dbo.Table1

    for update

    as

    update t2

    set desc2 = desc1

    from inserted

    inner join data2.dbo.table2 t2

    on inserted.id1 = t2.id1;

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  • RE: Finding next or previous nth business day excluding weekends

    What about holidays?

    Your best bet for this kind of thing is a calendar table. Lots of uses, this is one of them.

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