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  • RE: The Bionic Office - V2

    blandry (1/6/2009)


    This is one of those topics where a "keen sense of the obvious" comes in very handy, but unfortunately, in my experience, it hasn't. Its great to design...

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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: getting all records between 2 fridays of a given date

    Jeff Moden (1/1/2009)


    Piotr Rodak (1/1/2009)


    Now, that's a cunning trick I see now Jeff :w00t:

    Not earlier than yesterday I said to myself 'one day I have to get those dateadd-datediff calculations...

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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: getting all records between 2 fridays of a given date

    In case someone's reading this and doesn't have the U.S. English default set on their instance, don't forget to check @@datefirst to make sure which day starts your week.

    You'll...

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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: Using Cast.

    Can I ask why you're doing this?

    Is this a one-time y/n determination (in which case, why add a new column, just check as previous poster showed whether something exists)...

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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: Common Mistakes in T-SQL

    Thanks for the blog post Gail, I don't use error-checking and transactions as much as most, since I can't write to anything but Tempdb, but wasn't aware of these issues...

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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: Query simplification

    OR . . . . (you guys are making this harder than it needs to be)

    Copy . . .

    Paste . . .

    😀

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  • RE: Smart Teaching

    Scott Arendt (12/23/2008)


    I bet there are a large number of people who bowl regularly who have no idea how to score a game by hand.

    Scott

    Score by hand? What...

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  • RE: The Set-Based Limit

    Two comments -

    Steve - interesting model of the solar system you have posted in the article, haven't seen that one before 😀

    Everyone else (except Darth & Ninja, you guys...

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  • RE: The Best Computer

    blandry (12/19/2008)


    (First - a correction for AndyD... Holly is NOT the female computer in Red Dwarf - that is Hilly. Holly is the actor Norman Lovett, a male...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Chris Morris (12/19/2008)


    Someone said beer I swear...

    Nicest beer this week was Blue Moon wheat beer from Denver, CO, purchased from Sainsbury's, Reading, UK.

    My sister-in-law is crazy about that stuff. Can't...

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  • RE: The Best Computer

    I'm partial to the displays and computers seen in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, built from lifeforce.

    While fictional, it does seem to me that it could be not-so-far off...

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  • RE: Query errors not displaying?

    Thanks, gotta run tonight, but I'll try Profiler tomorrow. Haven't actually used it before, so that'll be fun, I enjoy learning new tricks.

    Thanks for the suggestions, I'll let you...

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  • RE: Query errors not displaying?

    It'd be a long shot, that's a table for a termed vendor, on whom I'm doing analysis, it didn't exist in the tempdb before I ran the script, and I...

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  • RE: Query errors not displaying?

    Bummer, there goes my grand scheme. 😉

    just running inserts, sample below (minus the data)

    INSERT INTO ##UCHP (status,[Name],Provider,DOS,[Claim Amt],[Paid Amt],[Paid Date],[Check Number],[Claim Number],[Payor]) VALUES ( ... )

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  • RE: Query errors not displaying?

    Well isn't that a nice, fuzzy thought? All I did was

    DECLARE @chaos varchar(max)

    SELECT @chaos = replicate('DROP DATABASE ' + (SELECT name FROM sys.databases WHERE ID = N) + '...

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