Marie... you've just made this article worthwhile in my eyes. ...

Steve Jones - Editor (11/27/2007)

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We can recommend it, but not sure many people will read it. Lots of people want to get an answer, post quickly, don't think about reading...

Spot...

GilaMonster (11/27/2007)

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Nice. I'm also a little tired of people looking for a free lunch. Problem is, those who need it most will likely not be the people who read...

Well said and absolutely true... the "Old School" method...

Funny that you should mention that, Bad Dog... We've...

Thanks for the feedback, Mike.

Yep... folks on news groups could learn a thing or two about how to post questions, as well. Some folks just don't understand how much...

Was reviewing the results of the code above, and found a small boo-boo on the "Dense Percentile"... corrected in the following code... it did take it up from 28 to...

Heh... guess I hit someone's "sweet" spot... got 1 vote with 1 star so far and they didn't even take the time to post what their complaint was 😀

Heh... I'll just bet that Jeff Moden does, too! 😛

But,...

There he is! And I knew he'd have a pretty good answer for this one, too!

How was the weekend, Matt?

Matt Miller (11/26/2007)

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...to which the right answer should NEVER start with...

"Yeah - I was playing with this new cool TRUNCATE feature in production, right before the end of my last...

Heh... yeah, I know... "Bus-man's holiday" 😛 The really wide code is pretty tough on the display...

Yeah... I'm a "geek"... love this stuff. Some folks do counted cross-stich...

Pieter Huiberts (11/26/2007)

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Thanks for the suggestion, but at 150mln rows by a couple hundred columns it is less practical.

Would A CLR + .NET allow some type of batching, or setting...

You bet... as soon as you can get everyone that could ever have access to this forum to sign a "non-disclosure notice" and a "Covenant not to compete". That...