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  • RE: Editable UNION!

    In order to digest, start with my two examples, then read the bit in Books Online on "Create View". You'll see the elements from that in the examples.

    Once you...

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  • RE: Cannot get percentage of two columns

    Sorry I didn't give an example, glad you worked it out. I've seen that kind of error lots of times, and it's almost always caused by dividing integers by...

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  • RE: Time Off

    Memorial Day in particular is about remembering those who have fought and even died for our freedom. My grandparents were WW II vets, my great grandparents were POWs in...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - Editor (5/21/2009)


    Sinanju, haven't read that in a long, long time.

    I used to have the first 100 or so books. Definitely entertaining.

    I can easily see:

    "I am created...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Bob Hovious (5/21/2009)


    I'll play it safe, just the same, Steve. 😉

    You never know... she might be of those Zen archers. Walks out into her yard... tests...

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  • RE: Editable UNION!

    Here's another example. In this one, I set the ID column of one of the tables to be negative 1 with an increment of minus 1, so I can...

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  • RE: Editable UNION!

    A view with Union All in it can allow for edits to the underlying table data, IF there is a key in the two tables that indicates precisely which table...

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  • RE: Cannot get percentage of two columns

    Are the numbers integers? If so, cast/convert to float as part of the calculation.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (5/21/2009)


    Oh yay. 🙁

    Another email accusing me of personal attacks and damaging someone's public image by 'misleading' people about his statements.

    Sometimes I wonder why I bother.....

    For the entertainment value, obviously.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Roy Ernest (5/20/2009)


    All of you need a vacation... You have all gone crazy.... 😛

    I've always maintained I'd have to drive a long ways in reverse to get back to crazy.

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  • RE: confused by user defined functions

    GSquared (5/19/2009)


    Greg Snidow (5/19/2009)


    GSquared (5/19/2009)


    Get rid of the semicolons, the function will still run, it's just less "clean".

    I often see code with semicolons here, but usually without. I have...

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  • RE: confused by user defined functions

    Greg Snidow (5/19/2009)


    GSquared (5/19/2009)


    Get rid of the semicolons, the function will still run, it's just less "clean".

    I often see code with semicolons here, but usually without. I have queried...

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  • RE: Help ! Seeing SQL Server from MS Access ?

    Linked tables may be the way to go now. What I was doing was Access 2000, then 2003, on SQL 2000, then 2005. I haven't worked with later...

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  • RE: Help ! Seeing SQL Server from MS Access ?

    That's very similar to the situation I had when I started out. Access as the front-end to SQL as the database works quite a lot better than just plain...

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  • RE: Help on query performance

    Having an "OR" in the Where clause often eliminates the ability for SQL Server to do an index seek. Instead, it ends up being forced to do index scans....

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