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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Roy Ernest (6/30/2009)


    So I assumed, and was apparently incorrect in that. (I hope this wasn't obfuscatory. I'm trying to be as precise as possible here, and am now assuming singular...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    john.arnott (6/30/2009)


    3NF-Boy got me ROFL with this response:w00t:. I can't wait to see Gus's answer. 😉

    No more waiting required. Let me know if...

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  • RE: Trasitive dependencies

    smsam1 (6/30/2009)


    thanks.

    i do understand your grammer easily. 🙂

    but how can u assume that english is not my first language?

    Sorry about that. I'm just used to things like this:

    ya.. that...

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  • RE: What would you do?

    Use Excel. Export it to text files, and use the XML file format to tell OpenRowset what the column definitions are and how many rows to skip at the...

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  • RE: What if Autogrow option is off and autoshrink option is on in a database.

    It'll mean that, if the data every grows beyond the size of the allocated files, you'll get errors. Not having autogrow on is what will cause that. What...

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  • RE: Trasitive dependencies

    That's accurate. More grammatically correct would be, "Column 'has_passed' is transitively dependent on columns 'student_id', and 'subject_id' via column 'marks'." (I'm assuming from the posts that English is...

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  • RE: Disaster Recovery - An Afterthought?

    "Disaster" is always subjective.

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  • RE: Inserting Trademark (TM) Logo in a table

    Nah. If the default is overriding the character set, setting the collation for the select won't fix that.

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  • RE: Documenting Database Code: Structured Headers

    I like the idea of an XML structure for commenting. Never thought of that myself, and haven't run into it as a practice.

    Where documentation standards have been set for...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (6/29/2009)


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    GilaMonster (6/14/2009)


    $Deity's gift to IT

    Yep!

    Is it stuck above your monitor?

    So far, yes. I still plan to turn it into a t-shirt.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jcrawf02 (6/29/2009)


    GSquared (6/29/2009)


    Another advantage, off-topic, to a Names table, is that you can have a NameEquivalences table that records, by whatever means, the fact that "Johnathon" is the same as...

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  • RE: ERROR: Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, = or when the subquery is used as an expression

    Try this:

    select hmss.employee_code

    from dw_historical_monthly_salesman_sales as hmss, sales_contests sc

    where sc.contest_id = 11 and

    hmss.commission_month between '5-1-09' and '6-30-09'

    group by hmss.employee_code

    having count(*) > 1

    That'll at least tell you which...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (6/29/2009)


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    GSquared (6/29/2009)


    I have a Dilbert strip, the XKCD about Little Bobby Tables (search that if you don't know it, required reading for DBAs), a picture of Darth Vader...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (6/29/2009)


    AARRRGGGG!!!

    When will people learn to read???

    Reading leads to learning. Learning leads to knowledge. Knowledge leads to power. Power corrupts!

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (6/29/2009)


    If I remember the Modeling class at the TDWI conference a couple of years ago, 6NF is used to eliminate nulls being stored in a database. Also...

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