If you aren't storing dates, be careful here. I would bet you get a bug at some point when a shift or a schedule goes over 24 hours. I've worked...

Make sure no proxy is set and ensure that the job itself has the account correctly chosen. There are various ways to change this, and configure different accounts for a...

SQLBits is going to be iffy for me. I need to be back here on Sun, May 8, so I may have to check if I can speak on Friday...

Ah, good one Luis. I realize I misread this as first. You want to parse out related rows.

I think Luis' solution will work, but only if your rules are for...

You are asking too much of Server Core.

If you're remote, and you need client tools in a GUI, then you should have a remote machine that you connect to, which...

I'm guessing the end set is what you want? Find the max date for each id

SELECT Id

, MAX(te.Date1) AS 'Resubmitted On'

FROM #TEmp AS te

GROUP BY id

Then you can put...

I agree with Sergiy. XML makes this easy.

As a hint, you can use the idea of joining a column to itself.

select '' + mycol

from mytable

If you have the tsqlt...

Tavis Reddick (12/9/2015)

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Could there be a tendency, over time and in a successful devops team, for individuals to learn new skills from the 'other' side, to the detriment of learning...

Michael L John (12/3/2015)

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DevOps is what's implemented to break down the communication barriers and silos that were created when Agile was implemented.

To me, it's only a new name for...

IIRC, Amazon uses messaging between systems, so the high volumes of orders get queued and processed into a relational system. It's usually seconds, but the queue allows for delays.

xsevensinzx (12/4/2015)

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I really don't understand this article at all.

NoSQL is such a broad topic that you really can't push out blanket statements about everything under the NoSQL umbrella much...

william-700725 (12/9/2015)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/9/2015)

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I don't have fundamental problems with gathering some of this data. Now keeping it, that's perhaps something we don't want to do. However we...

I thought it was...

william-700725 (12/9/2015)

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I would suggest that the growth in the volume of data stored does not reflect a growth in actual information.

If you look, how much of that growth is...

Sean Redmond (12/9/2015)

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A part of this increase in data-size is our sloppiness in database design. We throw in GUIDs everywhere partly because it is in fashion, partly because it makes...