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  • RE: How to return a "start of group" column?

    Sheng (4/7/2009)


    Jeff Moden (4/6/2009)


    Soooo.... does that mean you're happy now?

    ...... I can't follow you.:-) I just want to discuss if I've made a right decision about generating this column in...

  • RE: Convert multiple rows into columns

    vishal.chawla (4/7/2009)


    Am not a sql expert and I used the excel 07 file as an attachment for sample data as it was one of the file type options. Am reattaching...

  • RE: Just Walk Away - Blacklisting - and Twits without Twitter

    Jim Russell (4/8/2009)


    I'm not sure why I started reading this thread. As I did, I kept asking myself "Did I do that?", "Are they talking about me?"

    Don't you dare...

  • RE: Manners

    Lynn Pettis (4/7/2009)


    Jeff Moden (4/7/2009)


    Only they don't get to come back after calming down.

    BWA-HAA!!! That's not a fault... that's a feature. 😛

  • RE: How to display number of rows in each table in database

    mosaic (4/9/2009)


    quick and dirty - but handy for ad-hoc use:

    Set query output to text

    sp_MSforeachtable @command1=" SELECT '?', COUNT(*) FROM ?"

    Um... maybe. If you have tables like what are...

  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    Sorry... I forgot... here's the code I used for the INT truncation which is the fastest method for truncating a date that I know of.

    CREATE FUNCTION dbo.jbmTrunc

    --===== Function to...

  • RE: The T-SQL Paradigm

    andrew gothard (4/11/2009)


    Bit of a typing error there - meant to write "I always". Now you know my issues with more typing than required. True - what you...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Well... I did it. Thank goodness they extended the deadline of PASS 2009 Session Abstracts. I'll be there one way or another this year.

    I saw that...

  • RE: T-SQL 2005 Help

    GilaMonster (4/11/2009)


    Shane Redding (4/11/2009)


    In regards to the below, perhaps you should go work for the microsoft sql server team as GOTO is not uncommon in TSQL. 🙂

    Just because the...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (4/11/2009)


    Bob Hovious (4/11/2009)


    Okay... how many people here advocate the use of GOTO statements in T-SQL?

    I do, solely for error handling in SQL 2000. Since there isn't a TRY-CATCH construct...

  • RE: steve's dataphore

    steve dassin (4/10/2009)


    Jeff Moden (4/10/2009)


    steve dassin (4/10/2009)


    Do you realize that for over thirty years the relationship between the sqland and relationaland can be categorized by one word - 'Failure'.

    Yep......

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (4/10/2009)


    edit: this one

    Oh... that one. It'll probably turn out that they don't have the user login setup on the other machine(s) or, if it is, they...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (4/10/2009)


    Jeff Moden (4/10/2009)


    If that site has truly cribbed the exams, then the MS Certs have become truly useless for evaluating a potential employee's skills based on the cert...

  • RE: steve's dataphore

    steve dassin (4/10/2009)


    Do you realize that for over thirty years the relationship between the sqland and relationaland can be categorized by one word - 'Failure'.

    Yep... you've told us many...

  • RE: steve's dataphore

    steve dassin (4/10/2009)[hrThe butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker! You telling me Grimm's Fairy Tales is R rated. I was just being playful. Hey guys lighten up. Think split...

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