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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (3/17/2009)


    Has anyone seen St Michael of Earl? Curious if he may have left THE THREAD.

    May be taking a "desert sabatical", if he was paying attention to The...

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  • RE: T-Sql rant

    J (3/17/2009)


    Lynn Pettis (3/17/2009)[

    Sorry, had to make a slight correction, emphasis is mine.

    Woops! with my limited command of the Englsih language (not my mother tonge) I assumed Lynn was a...

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  • RE: A security package specific error occurred

    I would suggest contacting tech support for the monitoring product and seeing if they can help.

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  • RE: dynamic syntax comma

    Try this:

    declare @name sysname

    set @Name = 'A_NEW_York'

    select @name where @name like 'a[_][a-z][a-z][a-z][_]%'

    Square-brackets around an underscore make it a literal-string, instead of a variable. Test it with this:

    declare @name sysname

    set...

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  • RE: Select first (Minimum) avilable course

    Not stupid. Just have stuff to learn about SQL. Who doesn't?

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  • RE: Select first (Minimum) avilable course

    Try this:

    select @NewCourse =

    (select min(Courses.CourseID)

    from @Courses Courses

    left outer join @Enrollment Enrollment

    on Courses.CourseID = Enrollment.CourseID

    and Student = @Student

    where Enrollment.CourseID is null);

    See if that'll do what you need.

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  • RE: filter datetime

    If I understand what you mean, that you want to make a date and time look a certain way, do that in the front end (report/web page/form/whatever). Easier and...

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  • RE: SQL Server Knockoffs?

    chrisn (3/17/2009)


    The Express version is designed by Microsoft to fill this hole, where a solid RDBMS engine is required but not all the extra features. I guess encouraging the use...

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  • RE: General SQL 2005 questions which bugs me

    Why would you be in the middle of both regression testing and installing a service pack on the same server at the same instant? Or am I misunderstanding your...

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  • RE: SQL Server Knockoffs?

    gary (3/17/2009)


    The sad fact is that Microsoft makes everything an application. SQL Server should be a server not a programming language and Vista should be an operating system not a...

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  • RE: SQL Server Knockoffs?

    YSLGuru (3/17/2009)


    BTW ... I must be the only person on the planet, aside from the actors in the Vista commercials, who has had no problems with Vista and...

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  • RE: Code Formatting

    It seems to be dropping blank lines in the format. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it seems to be doing so.

    Line one, followed by a blank line

    Line two

    That...

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  • RE: T-Sql rant

    foxjazz (3/17/2009)


    Well for you folks that are still here.

    What I am speaking about is language, not about application.

    It seems many have failed to grasp that simple concept, and appear too...

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  • RE: difference between varchar and nvarchar

    Both can do 10 characters. One takes 10 bytes for that, the other takes 20 (plus overhead in both cases). The 10-byte one, varchar, can only hold ASCII...

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  • RE: more than one column modification in a sql table

    Lynn, have you tried it? I just tried all of these options:

    create table #T (

    ID int identity primary key,

    Col1 tinyint,

    Col2 tinyint);

    alter table #T

    alter column Col1 smallint, alter column Col2...

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