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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    "I still probably won't make the cut because I'm not an A-lister."

    Says who?

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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 We Not Testing Enough?

    Grant Fritchey (7/2/2010)


    I'm not so sure about testing. The interview process where I work includes considerable time at the white board. We talk about queries & table structures & TSQL....

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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: Split string using Tally Table

    Hugo, thanks again for the excellent re-write and explanation.

    Not sure why this one is tripping folks up, if you just count the delimiters, you can see it will return 13...

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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?

    Anybody seen Barry lately? Republication of his '15 ways to lose your cursors' (gonna be singing Simon & Garfunkel in my head all friggin day now) made me wonder?

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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 We Not Testing Enough?

    I absolutely think there should be testing, and I would gladly apply for any job that did so, not only to get a shot at it, but to find out...

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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?

    lmu92 (6/28/2010)


    Lynn Pettis (6/28/2010)


    Here is why he couldn't change his call after seeing it in instant replay, he is bound by the same Laws of the Game as the players...

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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 the Resource Governor Helped Our Report Server.

    I totally agree with ALZDBA, your article makes me want to go play with the functionality; it's easy to understand for someone who doesn't know what the RG is, gives...

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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: Insert .... Select that blocks nothing

    David, you have a couple of interesting points. To add to yours,

    1 - if we're re-evaluating the CTE every time we do the loop, and we can't specify the order...

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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: Book suggestion?

    Get and read Tom LaRock's book, DBA Survivor[/url]. It will give you a 'ground up' view of what being a DBA means, and will help you decide if that's 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: Send query result as HTML Mail

    Think this part is causing you issues:

    -- prepare query

    set @SqlCmd = 'select * into ##tempHTML1 from (' + @Query + ') as t1'

    execute (@SqlCmd)

    Try adding another parameter for @OrderBy, then...

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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?

    Steve Jones - Editor (6/24/2010)


    jcrawf02 (6/24/2010)


    Don't know if you guys are fans of Statistical Analysis, but there's a proposal for a StackOverflow model on stats, still waiting for enough folks...

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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?

    Don't know if you guys are fans of Statistical Analysis, but there's a proposal for a StackOverflow model on stats, still waiting for enough folks to commit to make it...

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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: Report Usage in Reporting Services

    FWIW - we do just that here at work, although we don't have access to the reportserver tables (working on that, politics...). We write into our own table, capturing 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?

    Paul White NZ (6/24/2010)


    Jan Van der Eecken (6/24/2010)


    With the time difference it will be 12 July by the time the game kicks off 🙂

    *sound of bubble bursting *

    🙁

    Happy early birthday...

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  • RE: Was it possible to do things like....................

    kpsr_kpsr 63487 (6/24/2010)


    How it is possible to show for small time, could u plz give idea, how to create?

    thanks in advance.

    regards

    sankar

    Tooltips automatically display for a short time when you put...

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