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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Bob Hovious (6/1/2009)


    Can anyone who has been through the partitioning wars give me some advice here?

    It's frickin' Monday, can't you just come up with another verse in the Ballad of...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (6/1/2009)


    Grant Fritchey (5/31/2009)


    Roy Ernest (5/29/2009)


    Is it the Dissecting SQL Server execution plans e-Book? If so then yes. I have it with me. And have started reading it.

    I got...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Kit G (5/28/2009)


    jcrawf02 (5/28/2009)


    Tom Brown (5/27/2009)


    Lynn Pettis (5/26/2009)


    OMG, you really have to be kidding here...

    As a complete and totally unrelated aside: -

    There's a character called Trigger in the BBC comedy...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    tosscrosby (5/28/2009)


    GilaMonster (5/28/2009)


    I thought I'd seen everything....

    Anyone (preferably someone who's telepathic or precog) want to tackle these?

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic725415-8-1.aspx

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic725410-8-1.aspx

    Gail, how are you lucky enough to find all these wonderful folks???

    Steve, quote button...

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  • RE: dbo.status?

    julioregalado110 (5/28/2009)


    So in the Status columm, what does it mean to have numbers like 22 or 7? Is there a particular dictionary or index of what does codes mean? ...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Tom Brown (5/27/2009)


    Gaby Abed (5/27/2009)


    Jack Corbett (5/27/2009)

    Discussing this, just in jest will get the thread to 5000 posts pretty quickly.

    Hmmm...a challenge? Who will be the 5000th post?

    Will there be...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Alvin Ramard (5/27/2009)


    Bob Hovious (5/27/2009)


    What's an index?

    It's one of your fingers.

    No, not that one!! the one next to it!! Jeesh . .. :hehe:

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Tom Brown (5/27/2009)


    Lynn Pettis (5/26/2009)


    OMG, you really have to be kidding here...

    As a complete and totally unrelated aside: -

    There's a character called Trigger in the BBC comedy Only Fools 'n'...

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    "stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    john.arnott (5/22/2009)


    Christopher Stobbs (5/22/2009)


    Which is why I like Rugby, as "hardcore" and rough a sport as it is, there is hardly ever any swearing at the ref, and if...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - Editor (5/22/2009)


    Lynn Pettis (5/22/2009)


    I like watching professional soccer. You rarely see the coaches getting angry on the touchline with the officials (not saying the don't).

    You rarely...

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  • RE: Forum Etiquette: How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help

    It does apply to '05, and it's not really a manual process, if you write your SQL as Jeff suggests, e.g. ...

    SELECT 'SELECT ' +...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (5/22/2009)


    No one is going to believe this, but a friend of mine & I were very minor characters in one of the Destroyer novels. We were introduced and...

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  • RE: Query Help

    http://www.sql.org is always a good start. Check out the beginner tutorials.

    Then come back here once you read your book/do some learning and start reading through articles/forums/blogs/whatever. Once you...

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  • RE: How many bottles will fit in a box?

    RBarryYoung (5/21/2009)


    ... usually the treatments of it that you will see (like Hugo's, IIFC) are one-dimensional in nature. Even the multi-dimensional treatments are based on rectangular shapes (rectangles,...

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  • RE: Time Off

    I'm counting on the rest of you to be barbecuing and puttering around your houses, 'cause we're headed to Cedar Point for some roller coaster madness! :w00t:

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