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  • RE: General Network Errors

    Good job on tracking it down. Any luck on fixing it?

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Roy Ernest (5/12/2009)


    I am into my 1000 + posts. So as per some people I am a Guru... Buahahahahahahahah

    :hehe:

    Congrats and welcome to gurudom.

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  • RE: How can I convert this to sql

    What does "InStr" do?

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  • RE: Transposing data from Columns to Rows

    Why not have the front-end do that kind of thing? SQL isn't all that good at string manipulation.

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  • RE: Testing Skills

    (Steve: Feels kind of weird to be responding to this editorial... 🙂 )

    The point of a VM test like this isn't to be a one-shot-interview-with-100%-success. The point is to...

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  • RE: indian authors for sql server book

    Grant Fritchey (5/12/2009)


    GilaMonster (5/12/2009)


    Grant Fritchey (5/12/2009)


    Paul White (5/12/2009)


    Vinoo (5/12/2009)


    Please understand that this forum has people who are extreme experts on SQL Server who are champions in their field. It pays...

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  • RE: How do I code this .....?

    Take the Top and Order By out of the sub-query. They're not doing anything useful in there, and SQL will ignore them anyway.

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  • RE: Log shipping Transaction

    Here's something that might help:

    use DBA;

    go

    create proc dbo.RestorePointInTime

    (@DBName sysname,

    @PointInTime datetime,

    @TargetDBName sysname = null,

    @MDFLocation nvarchar(128) = null,

    @LDFLocation nvarchar(128) = null)

    as

    /*

    Does not work with databases with more than one...

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  • RE: Need help splitting the name field into three rows

    This is what I came up with. It will only work reliably on names in the formats you listed.

    -- Set up test data

    create table #T (

    ID int identity primary...

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  • RE: While Loop Vs FAST_FORWARD READ_ONLY CURSOR

    It looks like what this does is take each Skill Group and Skill Group Target, grouped by Peripheral and Date, and update the available time by subtracting the Total Time.

    Am...

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  • RE: How do I code this .....?

    Glad I could help. Sorry about it taking a while to get. That possibility didn't occur to me, or I'd have explained it a bit.

    As already mentioned, don't...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (5/11/2009)


    Well to get the thread back "on topic" (as if), this one has managed to raise my blood pressure with his/her response.

    Suffice to say. I'm done.

    I had to...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Kit G (5/11/2009)


    David Burrows (5/11/2009)


    Oh and don't forget Scotty 😀

    And did anyone notice that anyone beaming down to a planet wearing red (except Scotty of course) was always killed off...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    john.arnott (5/11/2009)


    Here's one I've about given up on. I haven't convinced the author of a recent SSC article that it's a poor practice to do a datetime...

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  • RE: indian authors for sql server book

    anu1krishna (5/11/2009)


    hi all

    can anybody provide me the name of indian writers for sql server beginners book which i shuld buy to increase my knoledge

    If you look on Amazon.com, there are...

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