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  • RE: I got burned today at a SQL Server Interview!

    Sales truely is a more profitable profession. In fact, it is the most profitable profession, plus you are in total control of your income. It also does not...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: blank dates

    How 'bout posting the error so we can help you?

    John Rowan

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  • RE: I got burned today at a SQL Server Interview!

    There isn't anything else I know better that pays more! You see, all I am trying to do is make as much money as possible here and leave this place!...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Blocking - Why would a delete statement block itself?

    So what was the waittype of your self-blocked process?

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Stored Procedures - Must declare the scalar variable "@TempTable"

    ksullivan is correct, you must alias the table in order to qualify the column names.

    As a side note, I hope your servers and customers tables are not huge....

    John Rowan

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  • RE: pass table name as a parameter in stored procedure

    You'll need to work with using dynamic SQL to make that work properly. But beware, there are some things to consider when working with dynamic SQL. Here's a...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Blocking - Why would a delete statement block itself?

    A process shows up as blocking itself when it is waiting on resources (usually I/O). Take a look at the lastwaittype from sysprocesses for that spid and it will...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Imporve SQL query performance

    The advantage of using stored procedures is that SQL Server keeps the execution plan in cache so that subsequent executions of that SP do not require a recompilation, in theory....

    John Rowan

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  • RE: SQL editor that includes parsing and validation

    Why are they not including the transaction when executing? You may want to have them run the BEGIN TRAN and the UPDATE without the COMMIT/ROLLBACK. Once they verify...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Best Editor To use

    Have you went through all of the new formatting/style settings in Management Studios?

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Best Editor To use

    What features are you looking for? If all you want is intellisense, use SQL Prompt as G2 suggested.

    Are you saying that having Management Studios open bogs down...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Update Query for multiple rows based on Multiple Criteria

    Something is very wrong here.

    When both id's are found the code does not work. SQL Server showed an error when both conditions were true. So the code did...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Best Editor To use

    What's wrong with using Management Studios for your T-SQL coding?

    John Rowan

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  • RE: Which is Better....

    I think it's worth noting here that what you see happening in Matt's example, is that for the OUTER JOIN, if you reference the outer table in the WHERE clause,...

    John Rowan

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  • RE: join problem

    So you want to select rows that only exist in TableA? This is an OUTER JOIN.

    SELECT a.*

    FROM TableA a

    LEFT JOIN TableB b

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    John Rowan

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