Lowell (11/3/2008)

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you can try the isnumeric function:

WHERE ISNUMERIC(SOMEVARCHAR) = 1

but as others will tell you, it's not 100% reliable, because of the way it is structured; for exampel

select isnumeric('1E2')

select...

Politician AND a manure spreader - http://www.tomlynch4supervisor.com-a.googlepages.com/pastisprologue

By the way, what's the second half of the title?

"Life is like a manure spreader" . . .

. . . If you're not...

rbarryyoung (10/26/2008)

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Jeff Moden (10/9/2008)

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Heh... I...

ggraber (10/27/2008)

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Jack Corbett (10/26/2008)

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Actually SQLSaturday is NOT a Florida only thing. There have been SQLSaturday's in Washington state,...

ChrisPapps (10/26/2008)

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I saw a signature on a forum (apologies to the person involved, I cannot remember where or when) but it could serve as a particularly cute candidate shibboleth for...

Stephanie J Brown (10/26/2008)

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Plus I find that often when I have an issue on my "event horizon", and answer or direction appears in the newsletter - so apparently I...

John Rowan (10/21/2008)

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Well, first of all, everyone's opinion of rich differs. Making 150 K per year is far from rich. I do know that there are a couple...

lol good point, but what do...

K. Brian Kelley (10/20/2008)

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This link puts into perspective that sudden wealth isn't the answer. The problems which existed beforehand are still present and a whole host of new problems will...

Eric Klovning (10/19/2008)

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We use an approach similar to the following:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/System+Development+Life+Cycle/62933/

From a technical standpoint it works well as a script distribution mechanism but I doubt we have realized much in...

Not sure if this is going to be extremely helpful, but it might reduce your dataset a little. Rather than listing 401.1,401.2,401.3, etc as hypertension, just look at the...

MrBaseball34 (10/15/2008)

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I will try but there are 340,000 ptEncounter records, 610,000 ptDictation...

GSquared (10/15/2008)

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Matt Miller (10/14/2008)

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Let's not forget one of the biggest factors the various models forget to deal with...the power the model itself wields on the underlying system it was designed...

Can you de-identify the data to meet HIPAA reqs? John/Jane Doe and scramble the id numbers or something?

jpowers (10/15/2008)

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Steve Jones - Editor (10/15/2008)

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I'm not sure there was a lot of forcing loans. There have been numerous interviews from lots of brokers that were making upwards of $50k...