Actually, that's a pretty good point. So is the point about newbies not knowing some...

BWAA-HAAA!!! Now that's funny! Like I said, "Welcome aboard"... you're gonna fit in just fine.

cs_troyk (4/6/2009)

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Not to mention, Jeff, that you missed your mark by one post. Or is it OK for Sergiy to call Steve's post (or was it Steve?) "a pile of...

GSquared (4/6/2009)

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Jeff Moden (4/6/2009)

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Here's a perfect example...

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic688949-8-1.aspx

My answer would have been... "Thanks for the setup code... please post the code that you've tried so far so we can point you...

davidandrews13 (4/6/2009)

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i code in VB.net and i'm relatively new to using SQL, only doing it for about 1 and a half years, so i have to admit that i dont...

Here's a perfect example...

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic688949-8-1.aspx

My answer would have been... "Thanks for the setup code... please post the code that you've tried so far so we can point you in the right...

I agree... Barry's initial response was a bit "curt"... and I also think it was absolutely appropriate.

Look at the list of items asked in the Original post... these are relatively...

Jack Corbett (4/6/2009)

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Jeff Moden (4/4/2009)

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Heh... I agree... probably an inteview question.

I believe the question actually asks "how would you write a trigger that executed another stored procedure but only at...

Aaron N. Cutshall (4/6/2009)

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OK, you got me there!:-P However,...

First, let me take nothing from the article. It's well written and clear. Well done.

However, the following statement seems to destroy whatever utility was intended in the code...

Note...

GSquared (4/6/2009)

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I noticed that a lot of the pages here slowed down like crazy when the prettier code blocks were added in. There's a script that formats them, and...

Same here, Roy. Our thoughts are with you.

Aaron N. Cutshall (4/6/2009)

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David Walker (4/3/2009)

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Although this is off the original topic, I still haven't seen a SQL statement that was easier to read with the aliases than without them....

Manie Verster (4/6/2009)

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To get SQL to perform is what might make it look difficult. It's easy to write a query but to get the optimal performance out of that query...

steve dassin (4/6/2009)

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Sergiy (4/6/2009)

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Such a...