In the JSON Standards docs they call the forward slash symbol a 'solidus' and a...

• This reply was modified 1 years, 6 months ago by Steve Collins. Reason: Removed mistake

Yes removing the escape characters would invalidate the JSON...

Is this really SQL Server 2012?  Extended support for SQL Server 2012 ended last year.  Why are the AMOUNT and PRICE of data type FLOAT?  Generally, columns with those names...

The code posted seems to have issues imo.  Can't be certain tho. ...

We're not just a forum, though. This is a whole publishing engine that gets article submissions, runs them through a queue, publishes, scheduled, generates a newsletter, has the daily...

Imo the issue with assigning value(s) to variable(s) and then using variable(s) to resolve flow of control is it can create race conditions.  Then database serialization is attempted to hold...

Volumes are better, especially across time. Getting a consistent set of emails across time is good.

Your posts here (forwarded) did get a meeting set and some movement on upgrading...

It's tl;dr with the data.  The real questions are: 1) what is your data access pattern,  and 2) how are you handling identity and access management?

Maybe you're looking for rows WHERE the SkidStatus and the LEAD SkidStatus are unequal within a common row key partition.  In this case left(SKIDNUMBER, 10) effectively truncates the _NOTAPPLICABLE suffixes

The issue here is although there is an apparent pattern there are no constraints on uniqueness other than the surrogate key ID.   The query you're suggesting to write creates a...

Also a few other potential issues.  If there are any gaps in the depth measurements this method won't fill them in.  Also if there are equal thicknesses this method will...

To get the thickness calculation correct it needs to account for the boundary conditions.  Instead of expanding across the entire sequence and then joining (with inequalities) to the resultant intervals...

Thanks Phil.  Interesting maybe.  The real answer is don't use cursors 🙂

Why not store the user's default in the users table?

split the recipe into two parts in the CTE. Part 1 is all the ingredients, weights for everything except the starter UNION ALL (For each ingredient in the Starter,...