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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (5/12/2011)


    Stefan Krzywicki (5/12/2011)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/12/2011)


    So it's a snow day here, kids off from school. I've already fired up the tractor, been up and down the...

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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?

    Jeff, http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1107435-338-1.aspx#bm1108098

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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?

    Thanks Gail! No Swype just sucks. That may be a deal-breaker, it won't be better for my wrists to type on that virtual keyboard than use my ergo one.

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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?

    why do I need an iPad2? suggestions? (32GB wifi version, guy at work selling it)

    my list so far:

    1 - I can use it for my schoolwork online, reading the...

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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: Need help filtering data on my select query

    bpar (5/12/2011)


    Thanks for the reply. I completely forgot about ranking.

    In the Dates CTE, you reference a table OHIO_REPORT_DETAILS.dbo.Tally that has a column n. What is the purpose this...

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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: Need help filtering data on my select query

    Colleague threw this together when I got stuck, doesn't have your recordID, which might be a problem for you, let me know how it looks. (Thank Adam, not me :-))

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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: how to convert in sql query

    Gotcha. So Anbu, what have you tried so far? Did you read the entry on Datename()? Do you have any questions about how to use it?

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  • RE: SSIS -Excel multiple sheet load

    In addition, if you just wanted to overwrite the file itself, you can specify in a SQL task to DROP TABLE `Sheet1$` and then CREATE TABLE `Sheet1$` and it will...

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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: Join vs Where

    See Kimberly Tripp's blog for a detailed explanation of what Lowell is talking about: http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/post/Determining-the-position-of-search-arguments-in-a-join.aspx

    It's the difference between only joining on the records with that condition (e.g. condition in the...

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  • RE: Need help filtering data on my select query

    which one is the widget number, and what does the Summary column tell us? I was assuming the Summary or the widget numbers would have to be the same, but...

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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: how to convert in sql query

    look up DATENAME() in BOL, that should do the trick. Is this just a reference table for the months of the year? If you're actually trying to store the months...

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  • RE: The Poor Soul

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/11/2011)


    Eric M Russell (5/11/2011)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/11/2011)


    Eric M Russell (5/11/2011)


    If you have a NetFlix account, then watch a Clint Eastwood western movie for...

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  • RE: Get the First letter of each word within a string and returned a concatenated string

    Totally understand the real estate issue. Bet they want to print it out too, right? 😉

    We've been working on a patient dashboard ourselves but haven't gotten the lab values in...

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  • RE: The Poor Soul

    Kenneth Wymore (5/11/2011)


    One thing you can do from a training perspective is to sign up for as many free webinars as possible and post them on your outlook calendar as...

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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: Get the First letter of each word within a string and returned a concatenated string

    Pete, curious why you're doing this? Won't you have to explain the abbreviations to users anyway? What about multiples/duplicates (Mercy Hospital / Mercer Hospital / Mary's Hospital/ etc?) Are you...

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