If they know, why not surface it on the TV? Or in the stadium? Why not have an official timekeeper handling that on the scoreboard?

I bet there are lots of...

Lynn Pettis (6/21/2010)

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Clock? We have a clock, it is on our wrist. In fact, take a close look at the center referee when you watch a World Cup...

I think that there will be lots of movement to the cloud, much like we've seen email and web services move to cloud providers. However I don't share Ed's vision...

All referees will make mistakes. We see it here locally in our baseball games, see it in games on TV. I'd agree that without blatant bias, we let it go.

However,...

I missed the different columns for each. Apologies.

If this is a one time thing, I wonder if you can get this done, and tested, in 2-3 hours. In 2-3 hours,...

If they are delimited, you can load them with BCP, but likely you just want to use a loop to do this.

SSIS is not that hard to use, and...

I'm with David. There's no direct way to do this and create tables. To a large extent, this is why SSIS exists. Why can't you use that?

If the tables are...

Greg Edwards-268690 (6/18/2010)

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Wouldn't the...

We got COLA raises, small ones this year. Slightly more last year.

If we are truly going to implement those months, some of which I really like, I guess we'd want a table. After all, who knows when we will have Celebrate-Texting-Month...

Congrats!

You've done a good job from the description. I'm not sure what else you can do, other than look to move on.

I've been in a similar situation, although I didn't...

For one to 12? Rounds trip to the server? Wouldn't it be easier to hard code these in? AFAIK, months don't change often.

Don't worry too much about the discussion. Plenty of people think everyone sees what they see, and they don't...

James Stephens (6/18/2010)

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While I agree that in general cursors can adversely affect performance, I disagree with the conclusion that there is "always" a way to use a set operation rather...