We should be recording this as well, so you should be able to watch later.

If we're lucky, we'll get Grant to do this again in Feb/Mar as well.

There's an Articles link to the left that gets you to the list. There's also a "Previous Headlines" link on the front page.

You can also use the Tags to navigate.

I don't know exactly what to_char will do on Oracle, so no, I can't. I have pointed you to the similar commands, and there is a link from someone to...

There is no good way to do this as the dependency tree takes some effort to build. Red Gate has a dependency tool (my employer) that will find the dependencies.

We have been talking about adding topics to the Briefcase, which will help.

Thanks for the suggestion

I'd agree with Grant. There are a variety of ways to do this, and no standard.

I've written about things here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/524/, http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/525/

Chef.

so far today I've cooked:

- hash browns

- scrambled eggs

- bacon (twice)

- chocolate chip waffles

- popcorn

- iced tea

- coffee

- bunches of hay (not really cooked, but it requires effort to distribute)

Well I still wish I was Ben Kenobi. The older I get, the more...

Sorry, I won't be looking back here for the contest, but nice try, greg.

The ScaryDBA.com link seems to work for me.

Use CAST or CONVERT for to_char to convert data to strings.

You haven't really asked a question here. What is the problem? Can you not just grant the rights you listed in each environment to the appropriate users/groups?

nice! I love my quad core, 8GB desktop. Be interested to see where you Windows Experience Index comes in. Mine is 4.6

My lunch yesterday

jcrawf02 (12/7/2010)

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RE: Phil McCracken and SQL Spackle

In case anyone had any doubt about the value of these articles, wanted to share that Jeff's Contiguous Date article today was exactly what...

Brandie Tarvin (12/7/2010)

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I have to wonder if this thread is encouraging people to respond more harshly to articles, posts, etc. Certain we've seen an uptick amongst ourselves of bashing other...