http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252506/question-quality-is-dropping-on-stack-overflow%5B/url%5D

LOL thought of you guys when I saw that!

Gary Varga (5/8/2014)

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I shan't be sharing these because, although they are good reads, I would make myself very...

I do think NoSQL has a place in the world. There are domains of problems that I'm sure Riak, MongoDB, and others, solve in a more efficient way than SQL...

Good one!

I like this one too:

http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-dead-sea-effect/%5B/url%5D

Steph Locke (5/7/2014)

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The proposition that managers should be de facto paid less than technical experts isn't something I agree with. I'd suggest the amount of management a particularly strong set...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6008839/bison-flex-sql-parser

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8656926/sql-lex-yacc-grammar

edit:

this looks interesting too, although I couldn't discern with my short read if you could use it for your case:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/559470b8-0d01-415d-9117-d707e708db3d/parse-tree-for-sql-expressions?forum=vstsdb

Makes some sense! According to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15136264/how-can-i-say-a-file-is-svg-without-using-a-magic-number SVG uses xml (as vector formats are probably primariliy a description of how to draw something instead of a description of the end results...

thomashohner (4/25/2014)

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Anyone have any suggestions on how to display a Binary Image in Report Builder 3.0? I'm trying to display the TemplateImage it is DataType "Image" which as I understand...

Jeff Moden (4/12/2014)

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I know this is an old post and that the subject is controversial, but a blank means you know it is blank. NULL actually isn't a value....

During the time you are reindexing aren't you writing to the log file???

Very good point, how would you do it and still allow him to find his dupes...

If it were me, I'd use the generic group by and then using the...

For a start, you can just try to get an ordered list, and eliminate rows where its the same but just a different order ie.,

change

WHERE t1.name <> t2.name

to

WHERE t1.name >...

Cody K (4/3/2014)

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Just to play the devil's avocado:

- XML is a first-class citizen in SQL Server and as far as validation goes that's what DTDs are for. Right?

- I'm not...

Grant Fritchey (4/3/2014)

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It's an approach taken by a developer or development team that doesn't understand SQL Server, or, just didn't want to take the time to do things correctly. It's...