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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (9/30/2014)


    How silver spoon can you get???

    Four thousand plus points....

    Anyway, could I possibly prevail upon the folks around here to do a little testing for me please. I've...


    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 to obtain SQL feature list from the command line

    "Enter your text here ""

    If you enter the code above without the " you get

    This

    To just post the link enter it as below

    ""http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/77016/how-to-obtain-sql-feature-list-from-the-command-line""


    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 datetime

    Now I really am confused, I'm definitely misunderstanding something.

    I thought CreatedOn was in the format yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.ttt. Where does the string come from?


    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 datetime

    spectra (9/26/2014)


    >>>>Remove the CONVERT and you'll be doing the date range check you want.

    how do you convert 26/09/2014 to Date ?

    If your dates are stored as

    2014-09-26 14:25:51.310

    2014-09-26 12:46:42.647

    2014-09-24 14:49:35.190

    2014-09-24...


    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 datetime

    Good spot Chris. I'd mentally accounted for it but forgot to actually write it 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

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  • RE: issue with datetime

    create table #Test

    (

    CreatedOn datetime

    ,ID int identity(1,1)

    )

    insert into #test

    select '2014-09-26 14:25:51.310' union all

    select '2014-09-26 12:46:42.647' union all

    select '2014-09-24 14:49:35.190' union all

    select '2014-09-24 12:39:21.150' union all

    select '2014-09-19 15:22:36.233' union all

    select '2014-09-19...


    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 datetime

    I'm struggling to understand what you need. Is that the only row you need returning? Can you post some sample data please.


    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 datetime

    What exactly is the problem? You need to be very careful using BETWEEN with datetime. You're much better using >= 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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (9/25/2014)


    Sean Lange (9/25/2014)


    Between the spammers and crussell commenting on every single QOTD from the last 8 years there is next to nothing going on around here lately. 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: Stairway to PowerPivot and DAX - Level 7: Function / Iterator Function Pairs: The DAX AVERAGE() and AVERAGEX() Functions

    Hi Bill,

    thanks for the Series. I've struggling with an odd problem with comparing the results in Excel. When I copy the filtered results across and apply the Auto-Average...


    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 (9/25/2014)Terminator

    Colon


    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!

    Ouroboros


    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!

    Bite


    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: Hourly

    If you change the fixed date to getdate() or the time you ran the report it will round the hour to the start of that hour for the start date...


    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: Hourly

    StartDate = dateadd(hh, datediff(hh, 0, '2014-09-24 08:30:00.000') - 1, 0)

    EndDate = dateadd(hh, datediff(hh, 0, '2014-09-24 08:30:00.000'), 0)

    Does that do what you want?


    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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