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  • RE: SQLServerCentral Best Practices Clinic: Part 3

    Brad, re: the 8 TempDB files, I have no direct info here, but yesterday's SSC newsletter had a link to a blog by Eric Stephani (http://ericstephani.com/?p=166) where he was recapping...

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  • RE: The Poor Soul

    WolforthJ (5/11/2011)


    It is amazing how ingrained in the culture of IT the idea of always being ready to quit is. Steve's expression of it as the first thing you need...

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  • RE: The Poor Soul

    Eric M Russell (5/11/2011)


    Of course the best way to learn is from peers and internal documentation. Unfortunately, in a small IT shop the new guy may not have anyone within...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Craig Farrell (5/10/2011)


    Hey all, sorry I fell off the earth a bit, even when I had an article go up. Thanks for the applause those who posted, and specifically...

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

    Vedran Kesegic (5/11/2011)


    select * from dbo.Abbreviate(' aaa .. bbb ,, ccccc ')

    --Result (without ;):

    &#;x20;

    Sory, result text was eaten by some html machinery -...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    bitbucket-25253 (5/10/2011)


    jcrawf02

    You attending or presenting ?

    SQLSaturday #75 - Columbus 2011 on Jun 11, 2011

    As much as I'd like to try presenting, I'll just be over-committing myself (again), so I'm just...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/10/2011)


    Doh! Voted for Paul's Sessions.

    hahahahaha....sorry to hear that(?)

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

    You know Jeff, eventually "ol' Paint" needs to take a trip to the glue factory 😉

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

    peterzeke (5/10/2011)[hrI agree 100% -- I've pushed many times that we need to spend the resources to build a "pipeline" instead of maintaining the "bucket brigade."

    I like that, I'm...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ha! You bunch of spoiled rotten SQLRally-ers. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&biw=1132&bih=700&q=8101+n+high+st+columbus+ohio+43235&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=8101+N+High+St,+Columbus,+OH+43235&gl=us&ei=42TJTeSHGIS0rAfzwNGgBQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ8gEwAA

    That's roughly 75 miles in any direction. I don't see any ocean, (it takes me a couple hours just to get to Lake...

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  • RE: Replace double quotes on SSIS

    vs7804, there was a suggestion earlier to just find/replace in the file before importing, that's one option, or the derived column as suggested just above. Lastly, you could just import...

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

    peterzeke (5/10/2011)


    Million thanks, Jeff. I look forward to trying it out your sql solution.

    As I'm sure you've heard from many others before, your thoroughness of tackling a problem is really...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jim Murphy (5/9/2011)


    GSquared (5/9/2011)


    I work in Orlando and live a few miles outside it

    Ah yes. I do see something in your profile about Orlando. So you probably know a little...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (5/9/2011)


    Oh my: http://shitmystudentswrite.tumblr.com/

    You don't want me to get any work done, do you? I'm laughing so hard I can't see the screen...

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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: Identity Reseed

    Oops, lucked into the right answer there, I was thinking reseed was setting the increment, and went with 3 because it was 1+2.

    Nice question!

    I want my points removed! 😛

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