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  • RE: Who's going to SQL Bits in Liverpool?

    I could have been at Bits but oh no I had to go to the party.


    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: More Unicode

    Felix Pamittan (5/5/2016)


    Correct answer:

    Yes, you can run this code, This returns 97

    Explanation:

    You can run this code. The CHAR variable is converted to NCHAR and the first character's value...


    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: What’s in a name?

    We've got a problem with entities having different names across different teams in the same business. To compound the issue, tables in the data warehouse have the same names...


    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: Update Table if Stored Proc Does Not Complete

    Luis Cazares (5/3/2016)


    If the procedure is stopped and it's properly written, it might have to rollback everything that has been done. Because you're using a single transaction, right?

    AARGH! Session timeout!!...


    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: Who's going to SQL Bits in Liverpool?

    Grant Fritchey (4/27/2016)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/27/2016)


    tindog (4/27/2016)


    I'd love to go to this, but have no SQL-y friends and get v anxious in unfamiliar places where I don't know...


    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: A Token Escape

    That was surprisingly easy for one of Andy's questions. There weren't any tricks or things that we should have inferred from the position of a comma :cool:. 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: Who's going to SQL Bits in Liverpool?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/26/2016)


    BWFC (4/26/2016)


    I'm now unregistered as yesterday I was officially invited to spend my Saturday afternoon with an army of four-year-olds on a sugar-rush. Although...


    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: How can I get two rows for the same record using SSRS?

    NineIron (4/26/2016)


    I have a report with too many columns to fit onto a landscape format. Is there a way to "divide" the record up to create two rows for 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: A nice whistle and flute

    Gary Varga (4/26/2016)


    TomThomson (4/25/2016)


    ...the classic example is "dancers" which is rhyming slang for "stairs" (truncated and mutated "dancing bears")...

    ??? Surely you mean "apples 'n' pears"!!!

    I have never heard of Dancing...


    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: Who's going to SQL Bits in Liverpool?

    Hugo Kornelis (4/13/2016)


    BWFC (4/13/2016)


    I've got my name down for the Saturday but it clashes with a family do so it's unlikely I'll make it.

    If you can indeed not make it,...


    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?

    Luis Cazares (4/25/2016)


    Ed Wagner (4/25/2016)


    Jeff Moden (4/24/2016)


    TomThomson (4/22/2016)


    Phil Parkin (4/22/2016)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/22/2016)


    Brandie Tarvin (4/22/2016)


    In this case I did add my two cents because I've seen that damn failure before and...


    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: get difference from previous record

    NJ Smith (4/21/2016)


    You could use the LAG() Windows Function which retrieves the value of the previous row. LEAD() retrieves the value on the next row. Something like;

    DECLARE @StartDate AS DATETIME

    SET...


    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: get difference from previous record

    DECLARE @MeterReading TABLE

    (

    MeterId int,MeterDescription varchar(100), ReadingOn datetime, NewReading float

    )

    INSERT INTO @MeterReading ( MeterId ,MeterDescription ,ReadingOn ,NewReading) VALUES ( 1350,'Left Hand Power Pack RHM','2016-04-14 11:30:00.000',2562.9)

    INSERT INTO @MeterReading ( MeterId ,MeterDescription ,ReadingOn...


    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: get difference from previous record

    Nomvula (4/21/2016)


    Hi Guys

    I have the following script when give me the max record on each date:

    DECLARE @StartDate AS DATETIME

    SET @StartDate = CONVERT(DATETIME,'15/04/2016',103)

    SELECT amr.MeterId

    ...


    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: Byte Me: Inadequate Cooling

    Gary Varga (4/20/2016)


    Picasso did surrealist paintings where items looked as though they had melted. The artist is matching this with the IT issue of cooling.

    Maybe it is a bad indicator...


    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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