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  • RE: Finding a substring within a text

    Heh... no, that's ok, Matt... there's some pretty good short books on RegEx... it's about time I picked one up. 😉

  • RE: Having problem deleting through a cursor - newbie

    I've not wallowed through the labyrinth of your cursor code to see exactly what you're doing, but why are you using cursors to do a simple dupe check/delete? There...

  • RE: How to make audit trigger 'capture' all rows affected?

    I see this quite often... people auditing INSERTs, I mean... why would you double (or more) the storage requirements by auditing INSERTs? Audits are supposed to keep track of...

  • RE: Executing VBA From T-SQL

    Create a formatted spreadsheet... use it as a template... use VBS to copy it to a new file... use OPENROWSET to populate the new file.

  • RE: Performance related queries

    Ok there... it's time for YOU to hit the books Mr. Senior Software Engineer with an MCA... look in Books Online...

  • RE: Compare tables

    Lookup "Merge" in Books Online...

  • RE: Retrieving the value of the variables dynamically

    You've told us what you want to do... but not why you think you need to do it. This smacks of RBAR (pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for...

  • RE: Case expression problem

    ... and, by the way, COALESCE works in both Oracle and SQL Server ...

    ... and NVL is the Oracle equivelent for ISNULL in SQL Server...

    ... and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP works in both...

  • RE: Case expression problem

    Nili S (11/7/2007)


    .... And it worked!! For both Oracle and SQL Server.

    Thanks!

    GETDATE() worked in Oracle? I don't think so...

  • RE: is there any difference between != and <>

    I agree with Mayank... just to add to that, the != will actually appear in execution plans as <>. Sounds strange, but I can always tell who wrote the...

  • RE: Executing VBA From T-SQL

    Why not just make it an auto-exec macro that get's executed when the spreadsheet is opened?

  • RE: Tale of <> Operator

    But we are using 'OR' which could generate cartesian product.

    Ok, Karth... your turn to explain something... How could the use of 'OR' cause a Cartesian product?

  • RE: Tale of <> Operator

    Absolutely nothing... NOT IN is evaluated to <> for single values and some exclusionary AND's using both for multi-values.

  • RE: Finding a substring within a text

    Matt Miller (11/7/2007)


    ...or... (come on Jeff, you KNOW what I am about to say)....

    Regular expression CLR functions would do that as well.... But you still need a search string...

  • RE: Add 3 columns into another column

    brendt hess (11/7/2007)


    This is one of those cases where COALESCE makes for a fun alternative, because it can make your head hurt figuring out what it is doing. 😉 ...

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