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  • RE: Current SQL text

    It may interest you to know that you can get fn_get_sql from Microsoft without upgrading to SP3. See here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325607/en-us

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Getting extra quote marks when Importing data with a single quote mark to identify inches

    Bulk Insert is just taking what you have in your data file. If the source data has the extra double quotes, bulk insert will treat them as wanted data....

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Can I concat a varchar column on a group by clause

    Yep, you're right. Nice catch.

    John Rowan

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  • RE: divide data into partitions

    Wow, you guys got an early start today. I'll echo everything Peso has posted. Very sound advice as usual Peter. Thanks for joining in.

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Can I concat a varchar column on a group by clause

    You don't need a cursor to do this. Keep in mind this has not been tested as it is based off of the last example:

    alter function str_data_list(@keyvalue int) returns...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: ProgramName Details

    This value is passed in the connection string as ApplicationName. If you want to uniquely identify connections, you'll have to have them identify themselves in the connection string.

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Prepared vs dynamic SQL odd execution plan

    In your first example, the optimizer can use the value you've passed in (1001) and actually look at the distribution of the index to determine if an index seek could...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: divide data into partitions

    Once you have the data in the table, how are you accessing it? Is it always by Project, or do you typically look at it by date as well?...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Compression/Decompression of values in Database

    Your description is pretty vague. Can you describe what you mean by compress/decompress. How about giving us some examples using SQL statements and sample data? It would...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Can I concat a varchar column on a group by clause

    OK, that's a start. How about some sample data and your desired results?

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Soundex-Like functionality

    Without documentation, it's hard to say. It does appear that the SoundExe values are all comprised of the left most X characters of the name, although I cannot see...

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  • RE: Getting extra quote marks when Importing data with a single quote mark to identify inches

    Can you post your BULK INSERT statement and a couple of lines of sample data mimicing what your data looks like with regards to the quotes?

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Soundex-Like functionality

    Yes, but this would appear to me to be more of a business rule. How does the data initially get inserted into the table?

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Can I concat a varchar column on a group by clause

    This looks like a story problem. This sounds pretty simple, but you'll have to help out a bit with some sample data and desired results. See the link...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Getting extra quote marks when Importing data with a single quote mark to identify inches

    How are you doing the import?

    John Rowan

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