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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (5/17/2012)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/17/2012)


    Thanks to new data mining abilities I think I read that they have the ability, to 75% or 90% or something like that,...

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  • RE: Use your own optimizer to tune your queries

    Just to jump on the bandwagon: I've been performance tuning SQL Server for 11 years now, and I'd never use this "own optimizer" solution. Lots of better, more standard,...

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  • RE: What is Big Data?

    And on the subject of "what is big data", I define it as any data where quantity has more of an impact on performance than normalization does. In other...

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  • RE: What is Big Data?

    CrankyRat (5/16/2012)


    "Relational database technology is pretty much obsolete and archaic.", Geoffrey P. Malafsky, Ph.D. from the Karen Lopez link.

    What an idiot. Saying relational technology is obsolete is like saying algebra...

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  • RE: Audit Trail Generator

    Format the data into an XML block, insert into a log table with an XML column. You can do that in a trigger pretty easily.

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  • RE: Where are the good Senior Level DBA's?

    Michael Valentine Jones (5/15/2012)


    I had an interesting experience recently where I was being interviewed by someone without the technical experience to be able to evaluate my skills at a company...

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  • RE: Send Mail

    Not clear on what you're asking for.

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  • RE: Converting first letter of every word to uppercase

    opc.three (5/15/2012)


    GSquared (5/15/2012)


    Because of all of those kinds of exceptions, and dozens more, I don't recommend doing this in T-SQL, and don't recommend doing this at all without serious research...

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  • RE: Problems with negative numbers using SWITCH function

    I found a suggestion that says that if you want a default, use 1=1 as the test, and put it last. Haven't tried that, but it would go where...

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  • RE: Send Mail

    What you want is probably sp_send_dbmail. Look that one up, play with it a bit, and see if it'll do what you need.

    Another possibility, of course, is SSRS. ...

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  • RE: varchar(max) field throwing truncated field error

    Check layers between the user and the table. Proc, code that calls the proc (or inline SQL), connection, et al. The problem will be in one of those.

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  • RE: Problems with negative numbers using SWITCH function

    Lynn Pettis (5/15/2012)


    ByronOne (5/15/2012)


    Sorry for being stupid but do you mean like the following:

    =Switch(sum(Fields!YTDBudget.Value)/sum(Fields!YTDActual.Value) -1 <-2.5, "Green", sum(Fields!YTDBudget.Value)/sum(Fields!YTDActual.Value) -1 <=-5.0, "Yellow", sum(Fields!YTDBudget.Value)/sum(Fields!YTDActual.Value) -1 <-5, "Red")

    I've tried this but it seems...

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  • RE: Converting first letter of every word to uppercase

    Here's an all-TSQL version:

    ;

    WITH Seeds(Seed)

    AS (SELECT *

    ...

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  • RE: Problems with negative numbers using SWITCH function

    ByronOne (5/15/2012)


    I actually want it to be below -5 (ie -6, -7 etc like you say...)

    Change the function to <-5 instead of >-5, see if that does what you need.

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  • RE: primary keys

    Lynn Pettis (5/15/2012)


    I am going to just say we are going to have to agree to disagree. I am not going to say that the Primary Key should most...

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