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  • RE: Conditional Where

    but at least it's semi-consistent.

    Seth Phelabaum

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    Consistency is only a virtue if you're not a screwup.

    lmao, nice turn of phrase - forgot about your sig, didn't ya? 😛

  • RE: Conditional Where

    Jeff Moden (11/23/2008)


    Man, I'm with Jack... use 2 or 3 part naming in the FROM clause, add aliases, and then use the aliases everywhere else. Done properly, it makes...

  • RE: Find Closest Match Data

    Chris Morris (11/20/2008)


    Hi

    It works like this. For two equal strings, say @mcode= '0011246';

    Split c.TheValues into chunks (tokens), and test each one to see if it appears anywhere in @mcode. The...

  • RE: Find Closest Match Data

    Chris, not following the phrase 'token matching' - looks like you're calculating a percent match based on the values in the table versus your @mcode, so I can see four...

  • RE: Ethics in IT - Database Weekly (Nov 17, 2008)

    David Reed (11/18/2008)


    Speaking from experience, it can be tough to fight off the whispered self-justifications for unethical behavior, especially when you feel taken advantage of by management or the company...

  • RE: Consolidating updates?

    Yes, it is missing stuff, I was considering only 'continuous enrollment' during the timeframe for which we had member experience, (i.e. the member's first enrollment to their last disenrollment, were...

  • RE: Consolidating updates?

    Seth, finally had a moment to look this one over, and had a couple of questions/comments:

    When I run it as posted, memID2 is not captured, but should be.

    As I...

  • RE: Ethics in IT - Database Weekly (Nov 17, 2008)

    more and more I think the way you present yourself, and your track record online, will have a huge impact on your changes of employment.

    While I agree with you, and...

  • RE: How Productive Are You?

    jpowers (11/14/2008)


    Anonymous post #1:

    Hello Steve,

    Let’s not forget that as “Knowledge Workers” – we carry our brains around (most of us anyways) 24-7.

    That means that, when we are commuting,...

  • RE: How Productive Are You?

    Andy Warren (11/14/2008)


    It's easy as an employee to say that you don't want to be measure on hours of productivity but only on tasks completed. The problem with that is...

  • RE: Select query returns result beyond the range specified...?

    please see the link below to help us figure out what's going on. Sample DDL and data will help us to solve your issues faster.

    Thanks,

    Jon

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/

  • RE: Data extrapolation on the fly

    I think you lost me here:

    Here I am trying to achieve the same without storing data in temp./staging tables.

    First I am creating a temp. table wih 2 rows

  • RE: Consolidating updates?

    Wow Seth, thanks. I'll have to puzzle over that for a bit, had to read it a couple of times. Updating a variable before you set it (in the...

  • RE: ORDER BY in INSERT INTO, how is it done?

    Thanks Gail/Matt - now that I've read this thread, gotta go fix something . . .

  • RE: How to update SQL Server table from a Temp table

    Ok, I'm not sure exactly what you mean when you state you are 'iterating over the temp table', so please correct me if I'm misinterpreting.

    From what I understand,...

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