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  • RE: Can we restore a database from SQL Server 2005 Enterprise edition to Standard Edition?

    G.R.Preethiviraj Kulasingham (8/9/2009)


    For example, table & index partition is an EE only feature. I haven't tested this, but that is what BOL says 🙂

    So I expect you...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Gail btw, anyone who's feeling overly-critical today might want to avoid today's headline article. It's .... somewhat lacking in places

    I replied to it.

    I think a few of the responses were...

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  • RE: Twenty tips to write a good stored procedure

    I was going to post a detailed reply to the article, but I see that Gail beat me to it. (No fair! MAJOR time-zone head-start! 🙂 )

    There's some...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (8/10/2009)


    Woot. My muse has returned. Sat down over the weekend and hammered out 3 pages of an article that I've been staring blankly at for the last couple months....

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  • RE: Max of 2 similar dates, with different times

    You're welcome.

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  • RE: Max of 2 similar dates, with different times

    It's a single-pass version of that problem, and in tests I've done, it's MUCH faster.

    That and deduping are the two best uses of Row_Number that I've found. I've used...

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  • RE: Working with Joins

    You're welcome.

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  • RE: Moving queries from Access 07 to SQL Server 05

    Please don't double-post.

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  • RE: Working with Joins

    Try it this way:

    UPDATE

    [tblShipments]

    SET

    [tblShipments].[Bill To] = [T Bill To 2].[Bill To]

    FROM

    [tblShipments]

    LEFT OUTER JOIN [T Bill To 2]

    ...

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  • RE: Max(date) with different times

    Please don't double-post in multiple forums on the same site.

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  • RE: Max of 2 similar dates, with different times

    Does this get you what you need?

    ;

    WITH Statuses

    AS (SELECT

    ...

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  • RE: 'Add' to a character.

    Yeah, I could have challenged it more. Did that to someone who needed an ID with a "U" on the front of it, just the other day. Said...

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  • RE: Loop to count

    When I added a PK, the scans went way down. When I added an index to each of the wages columns, on top of the PK (12 indexes +...

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  • RE: Good for the Goose

    Aaron N. Cutshall (8/7/2009)


    Paul Thornett (8/7/2009)


    IMHO, working (unpaid) overtime on a regular basis because it's expected or required is folly and madness.

    I couldn't agree more. One company I worked...

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  • RE: 'Add' to a character.

    Matt Miller (8/7/2009)


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    saivko (8/7/2009)


    Thanks! Works beautiful.

    Any advantages/disadvantages of using 'convert' vs. 'cast' ?

    Maybe convert is slower but safer?

    No performance advantage.

    Why not store the value as a number, and do...

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