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  • RE: Why do people need to do this?

    RBarryYoung (1/20/2009)


    Jeff Moden (1/20/2009)


    Truer words never spoken... it's a pig and I was trying to name the pig. 🙂 I believe the label of "Procedural Mystery Code Requirement"...

  • RE: create view problem

    rio_briones (1/20/2009)


    View definition cannot contain the following

    TOP

    Text, ntext or image columns

    DISTINCT

    MIN, MAX, COUNT, STDEV, VARIANCE, AVG

    SUM on a nullable expression

    A derived table

    Rowset function

    Another view

    UNION

    Subqueries, outer joins, self joins

    Full-text predicates like...

  • RE: VM... Setting up new "box"

    Steve Jones - Editor (1/20/2009)


    VMs don't kill servers, server administrators kill servers.

    Don't blame VMS, it's an ignorance thing, same as any other new tool we get. Usually we give them...

  • RE: backup failure

    Ok... something big just changed. It couldn't see the files in that directory before, but suddenly it can. Try running the backup again.

  • RE: Select Where_Min()

    Heh... limits are good. Neither my driving a million rows through something nor the speediest pork chop that I can muster up will ever have the impact that a...

  • RE: Quick Question about Using Functions, creates 30k lines in profiler

    You bet... thank you for the feedback.

  • RE: Share data (Parameters) between datasets in SSRS 2005

    htilburgs (1/20/2009)


    Yes, I'm using ReportServer and I'm using the parameters to make selections, so I need them.

    I'll try the method of Jeff, to fill my parameter.

    If it doesn't work, I'll...

  • RE: convert DateTime to BigInt

    Chris Morris (1/20/2009)


    For now, he's still trying to figure out how to persuade someone to write his script without letting on that it's coursework.

    Heh.... then there's that. 😉

  • RE: Surface Possibilities

    mhaskins (1/19/2009)


    jpowers (1/19/2009)


    Even as recently as the early 1990's I knew of managers who insisted their assistants print out their emails.

    That is pretty gross.

    C'MON, RETIRE PEOPLE!

    Heh... I've gotta ask......

  • RE: Why do people need to do this?

    GSquared (1/20/2009)


    Jeff, I think the basic point of such questions is that data sequentiality matters in some cases, and it's something that SQL (and relational databases in general) are supposed...

  • RE: Why do people need to do this?

    jcrawf02 (1/20/2009)


    but your customer sequence changes on the change of the hour?

    No, it changes when the SomeType column changes regardless of anything temporal.

    But, I agree with everyone else......

  • RE: Why do people need to do this?

    smunson (1/20/2009)


    I think there's an inherent problem with "slapping a label on it", which does little more than both condone AND support the very worst way to go about things....

  • RE: Why do people need to do this?

    Jacob Luebbers (1/20/2009)


    Jeff Moden (1/20/2009)


    But it wouldn't reset to 1 for the same person, would it?

    Ah, I missed that key point 😀

    In that case no, I've never seen a business...

  • RE: create view problem

    As a sidebar, there isn't really an advantage to having such an indexed view. The underlying indexes on the table are the only advantage. Indexed views become an...

  • RE: create view problem

    pat (1/20/2009)


    here is the whole table and view scenario

    create table table1

    [pid] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,

    [num] [int] NULL,

    [flag] [int] NULL,

    [tp_id] [int] NULL,

    [fe_id] [int] NULL,

    [sym] [int] NULL,

    [nvarchar](256) NULL,

    [lbl] [nvarchar](256) NULL,

    [sname] [nvarchar](256)...

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