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  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Road


    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: Fun Data Analysis

    I'm not sure your link is right Steve. It takes me to a Beth Schultz article about Big Data and Analytics.


    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: Removing Non-Alphabetical Characters

    Luis Cazares (10/9/2014)


    Erin Ramsay (10/9/2014)


    To avoid results like O'GaraD you're going to have to employ logic such as (possibly):

    Any characters that occur BEORE or AFTER an invalid character are also...


    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: THROW formatting

    Needs more caffeine...

    +1

    I misread the BOL page and didn't see the bit that told me what I was reading about. I just saw a particular line and thought...


    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: Removing Non-Alphabetical Characters

    Thanks Eirikur and Koen.

    I'm going to pursue the CTE approach for the time being I think. The solution Eirikur proposed is close but still returns incorrect characters. There's...


    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: Removing Non-Alphabetical Characters

    That's a phrase I've seen a lot around here but I wouldn't know one if I was served it for lunch 🙂 Are they something that we can do...


    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: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (10/7/2014)


    djj (10/7/2014)


    Ed Wagner (10/6/2014)


    whereisSQL? (10/6/2014)


    Sean Lange (10/6/2014)


    SQLRNNR (10/6/2014)


    geoduck

    Yummy!!!

    Delicious

    Taste

    Bud

    Spring

    Pogo


    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?

    Koen Verbeeck (10/7/2014)


    Is it me, or are notifications not coming through?

    No, it's not just you. Although you're going to have to keep a eye on the Recent Forum Posts...


    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: The Next Five Years

    My main current outstanding prediction is that the EU will crumble under infighting by 2050

    You give it that long do you Gaz? I'm thinking at least 20 years sooner...


    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: Add dollar to the result of floor value

    '$' + cast(floor(Price*DollarPrice) as varchar)

    This will give you $xx. You won't be able to do any calculations on that though. If you need to do anything...


    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: Flat File Destination

    You could use a Multicast Transform from the derived column. This lets you send the data multiple ways.

    The attached image shows what I mean.


    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?

    I'll be heading back North tomorrow after a very informative five day BI course in London town. I'm not entirely sure whether I'll be more excited to see my...


    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: Today's Random Word!

    Sean Lange (10/2/2014)


    Ed Wagner (10/2/2014)


    whereisSQL? (10/2/2014)


    SQLRNNR (10/2/2014)


    Ed Wagner (10/2/2014)


    djj (10/2/2014)


    Ed Wagner (10/2/2014)


    SQLRNNR (10/2/2014)


    sinew

    Tendon

    Bone

    Bad

    Sheep

    Wool

    Warm

    Fuzzies

    Felts


    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?

    Well done Jason and Jack.

    Thanks to those of you who had a look over the website for me, particularly Tom and Luis for taking the time to give such helpful...


    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?

    Luis Cazares (9/30/2014)

    These are some comments with no interest on diminishing your effort.

    - Design could improve, but I can't give specific ideas.--I know, it's definitely a work in progress....


    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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