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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Chris Harshman (11/23/2016)


    robert.sterbal 56890 (11/23/2016)


    What is on your menu for Thanksgiving?

    looks like SQL Server Central is having spam for thanksgiving :crazy:

    That is on the menu every day. We don't need...

  • RE: app development - sql backend.

    snomadj (11/23/2016)


    I need to give a client some options for creating a front end interface for a sql backend. What they currently have is a series of lame old access...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/22/2016)


    Have to drop this here, since I'm proud.

    My son completed his Board of Review last night to earn his Eagle Scout rank. It's been a...

  • RE: running SP from dotnet code takes much longer than running it in SSMS

    I doubt this is "solved", it has only gone away for the moment. It will come back again. This has the classic signs of parameter sniffing gone bad.

    Check out Gail's...

  • RE: how to retrieve numbers from a string

    If your string pattern is consistent and you are 100% certain you will never have any decimal points you can do something like this.

    Thanks to Lowell for turning this into...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (11/16/2016)


    So I did a quick google on polenta and found this interesting article.

    That's interesting. I have never heard most of those "rules" about polenta.

  • RE: Temp tables in transaction

    Nice straight forward question Sergiy. And something that many people don't know.

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ed Wagner (11/15/2016)


    Y.B. (11/15/2016)


    Hey Brandie, cheddar is not better!! LOL (it's all personal preference of course)

    That being said I did recently try an Irish Cheddar which was excellent. ...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (11/15/2016)


    VARCHAR(1) is my favorite data type of all time... Well, behind VARIANT, but hopefully that's going to be on the ash heap soon.

    Even better when it is defined...

  • RE: Performing union data with null values

    Budd (11/15/2016)


    While an ORDER BY clause will guarantee an order of results, I thought I read somewhere (long ago) that with out ORDER BY, the order or results can be...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    WayneS (11/11/2016)


    "safe" keeping? More like ransom.:w00t:

    Nah a ransom would indicate a possibility of parole. :hehe:

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (11/11/2016)


    Marbles?

    Pretty sure I lost them years ago.

    Yeap...it was right around the time I said "I do". 😀 Last I knew she still kept my marbles locked away for...

  • RE: Dropping a view

    Ed Wagner (11/11/2016)


    A good, straightforward question is a nice way to end the week. Thanks, Steve.

    Agreed!!! Good question Steve!!

  • RE: Update duplicate keys

    Matt.Altman (11/11/2016)


    Sorry, I didnt realize the ON DUPLICATE was mysql. Should have seen that. I am using T-SQL. And I will look at changing the name of...

  • RE: Update duplicate keys

    Matt.Altman (11/11/2016)


    So I have a stored proc

    INSERT INTO dbo.Table2 (Application, Timestamp, Performance, Availability)

    SELECT

    Application,

    CAST(Timestamp AS DATE) as Date,

    AVG(CAST(Performance AS decimal(6,2))) as Average_Performance,

    AVG(Availability) as Average_Availability

    FROM dbo.Table1

    GROUP BY CAST(Timestamp AS DATE), Application

    END

    It...

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