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  • RE: Join two tables that do not have matching keys

     CREATE TABLE #items ---- Build test tables, credit to the great Jeff Moden for this bit.
    (
        ItemID INT IDENTITY(101,1)
        ,Title VARCHAR(6)
    )
    ALTER TABLE...


    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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  • RE: Bypass a report filter

    You're welcome.  I've been caught out by that myself recently :blush:


    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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  • RE: Bypass a report filter

    I see.  I'm assuming your dropdowns are Report Parameters.  If that is the case, if you tick the Allow Multiple Values box thusly

    then set your filter like...


    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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  • RE: Bypass a report filter

    NineIron - Wednesday, March 15, 2017 6:14 AM

    Is there a way to "skip over" a filter? I have a date range parameter...


    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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  • RE: Issue with Invalid column name

    You need to include the two columns in the #Temp table that you reference in the subquery. It doesn't matter that they are present in the permanent tables, they need...


    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    djj - Wednesday, March 8, 2017 1:02 PM

    Well I have been out of a job for a few weeks now, and I...


    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Do you know when you've explained to a user at least twice that unless they fix their data and pay for the changes necessary to map two entities directly, the...


    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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  • RE: SSRS Parameter Not Working Correctly

    I'm absolutely sure that the data didn't change because the only person that could have changed it was me.  The report is based on a data warehouse that is loaded...


    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jasona.work - Monday, March 6, 2017 12:05 PM

    ZZartin - Thursday, March 2, 2017 9:41 AM


    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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  • RE: Please explain difference between these terms

    Jeff Moden - Monday, March 6, 2017 7:59 AM

    Neil Burton - Monday, March 6, 2017 1:53 AM


    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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  • RE: Please explain difference between these terms

    Jeff Moden - Sunday, March 5, 2017 10:52 AM

    Heh... the reason why Google "doesn't" help here is because you've not Googled enough. 😉 ...


    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    It appears that the AWS outage was caused by a typo[/url].


    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin - Friday, March 3, 2017 4:57 AM

    Lynn Pettis - Thursday, March 2, 2017 11:04 AM


    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

    How to post a question to get the most help http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Eirikur Eiriksson - Monday, February 6, 2017 1:37 PM

    Ed Wagner - Monday, February 6, 2017 8:09 AM


    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

    How to post a question to get the most help http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537

  • RE: TSQL query help

    Thom A - Friday, February 3, 2017 3:10 AM

    My only concern with BWFC's is if the OP's data includes numbers other than 4...


    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

    How to post a question to get the most help http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537

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