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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

    half a pound of mashed potatoes???I would be asleep for a full day. I opt for salad. i.m a healthy 12.5 stone (I dropped to 9 stone at one...


    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

  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

    Neil Burton wrote:

    MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

    low carb diet? - I eat bread or fries once a week. It makes me sleepy.

    I found that a lot of veg and chicken is a good...


    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

  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

    low carb diet? - I eat bread or fries once a week. It makes me sleepy.

    I found that a lot of veg and chicken is a good way to...


    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

  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    LOL, I'm fairly clean when I cook, washing pots and dishes while I can. I like to have things relatively clean and neat when I'm done.

    Now my FIL, I'm...


    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

  • Reply To: More Memory Optimized Table Limitations

    I got the question wrong yesterday because I chose the option that was incorrectly marked as unsupported.  Now that option's been replaced, I've got the question wrong because I apparently...


    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

  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

    we just got graded on a scale of risk

    but for those of us that are level 2 or higher (children or wife at risk) (0=you will die)  but we...


    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

  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    frederico_fonseca wrote:

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    All of you are. If she saw a few of these posts, she'd sneak onto my desktop and start banning your accounts.

    or she would create a new account...


    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

  • Reply To: CDC Noob questions ?

    Do you mean Clinical Data Capture or Change Data Capture?


    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

  • Reply To: issues with blank spaces

    I remembered coming across this article once upon a time which lead me here.  If I recall correctly I was fighting with a similar sort of thing in...


    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

  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin wrote:

    Just to be sure, Kendrick threw away all his Tom Hanks movies.

    @=)

    I threw out all my Dan Brown books too so I was doubly sure.


    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

  • Reply To: Query Help - History Table with no range data.

    simplemind wrote:

    Thank you, sorry for being an annoying noob moron, will try to do better in the future with well-formed requests.  This is very helpful, I have been stuck for...


    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

  • Reply To: Query Help - History Table with no range data.

    Without wanting to pile-on, there's no 31st of September either and there's a Sale Date in your Desired Results picture that's not in Table 1.

    You'll generally find most people around...

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by Neil Burton.


    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

  • Reply To: Quick query help

    select 
    LEFT(filename,LEN(filename)-CHARINDEX('\',REVERSE(filename)))
    from master..sysaltfiles

    That should do 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

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

  • Reply To: String extraction - SQL 2012

    pwalter83 wrote:

    Neil Burton wrote:

    DECLARE 
    @String VARCHAR(100) = 'CKflower2002-pouch-5AR-OneSize'
    select
    SUBSTRING(@string,PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',@string),PATINDEX('%[^0-9a-z]%',@string)-PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',@string))

    That will work for whatever the first delimiter is and for any length of string before the numbers.  It does...


    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

  • Reply To: The Triple Update

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    Thomas Rushton wrote:

    From the post:

    Not sure where this is useful or why it's there, but if anyone uses this, let us know.

    If you yabingle "quirky update", you'll find examples of...


    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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