Entertain new ideas? How quaint. I have been doing that for years, it's one of the reasons I am where I am today. You don't know me,...

Paul White (4/19/2009)

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If it helps at all (calm things down a bit) - I'm quite happy with the label 😉

Everyone have a good day. It's wet...

Okay, you don't grasp what I think is unprofessional regarding your posts. This is just one example of what I consider totally unprofessional:

I'm trying to grab you by the...

Steve,

Do you even know the concept of professionalism? I'm sorry, but I have read enough of your hyperbole and attacks. If you want to start influencing people get...

Starting with the following:

It's 3pm on a Friday, your production OLTP environment is down, every hour down costs the company one million dollars. People are phoning constantly, folks are rushing...

Rob (4/17/2009)

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I can't seem to find the problem. The project won't compile and shows the following error:

"TSD4001: The associated partition function 'my_partition_function' generates more partitions than there are file...

Alvin Ramard (4/18/2009)

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Florian Reischl (4/18/2009)

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But why only others than the gurus? Gail is already introduced in the discussion and I'm really glad about this! I think many other people (including...

I'd be willing to look it over.

Jeff Moden (4/18/2009)

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Steve Jones - Editor (4/18/2009)

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It's not advertising as I'd normally see it. It's a mention that his product, which shall not be mentioned, and which apparently isn't in...

Actually, we don't have much snow down here in the Widefield/Security/Fountain area. ...

No cursor needed, here is a set based way to accomplish your task.

select

COL1,

SUBSTRING(COL2,1,10) as COL2,

COL1 + SUBSTRING(COL2,1,10) as...

Alvin Ramard (4/18/2009)

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I'm watching one of the Star Wars movie on TV and the story is not the same as it used to be. The short, greenish, master Jedi...

Here is another way to do it:

Create Table #Bar (

EmployeeID int

, EName varchar(50)

, VisitedState varchar(60)

)

Insert into #Bar(EmployeeID, EName,...

May I ask why you need to do this in the stored procedure? This is something that really should be done by the front end application or report, not...

Steve Jones - Editor (4/18/2009)

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He'll go away if you let the thread die. He periodically comes through, posts for a few weeks, and then disappears.

Stop quoting him as well. The...