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  • RE: Learning About Temporal Tables

    Jeff Moden (7/6/2015)


    ... the MVP discussion emails (not available to the general public ...

    I always suspected that you were part of a secret cabal, Jeff. :hehe:

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  • RE: The Work of the Ancients

    bazmunro (10/3/2015)


    ...I converted a large thick Windows Dataflex app from flat file Btrieve to SQL, and chose MS's flavour...

    Oh, man, I feel your pain! I spent nine years in...

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  • RE: The Work of the Ancients

    In the mid '90s I wrote a blockwatch grant tracking system in Access, I left that org in 2001. Two years ago I went to have lunch with my...

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  • RE: Whats wrong in this query

    You might want to check out Plan Explorer, there's a free edition: https://www.sqlsentry.com/products/plan-explorer/sql-server-query-view.

    Also, I'd recommend Grant Fritchey's book on execution plans, available for free as a PDF from Redgate: https://www.red-gate.com/community/books/sql-server-execution-plans-ed-2....

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  • RE: Have a Think

    I attended Kevin Boles' Tune Like A Guru session at the El Paso SQL Saturday recently and he said the most important thing to do when you have a serious...

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  • RE: syntax help please ....

    Have you experimented with the MERGE statement? I've never used it, but it seems to me that (A) the WHEN MATCHED could be used to set a value to...

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  • RE: Logging Tables

    I use a trigger that I modified from Pop Rivett's column (https://www.simple-talk.com/content/article.aspx?article=301#forum from 2006. Put the trigger on any table to be audited and you get one record per...

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  • RE: Branching in VCS

    Yay! Attending the DLM workshop before the Denver SQL Saturday produced actionable knowledge! (even if I have no idea when I'll be able to implement VCS in my shop)

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  • RE: A Pattern for Email Address storage and retrieval

    ChrisM@Work (9/24/2015)


    Why are you using NVARCHAR for an email address?

    We now have Unicode URLs, so why not Unicode characters for email addresses. You can Google Unicode Email and there's...

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  • RE: Painful datetime conversion

    Sean Lange (9/17/2015)


    ... I would rather peel M&Ms in the desert than work with this system.

    Sounds like the ERP system used by a previous employer. I told my friends...

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  • RE: Finding NULL in CASE Statement

    Lynn Pettis (9/16/2015)


    Just as long as people use the semicolon (;) as a statement terminator not a begininator. That is my pet peeve.

    I saw one argument to using it...

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  • RE: Byte Me: NooseSQL

    "And they didn't believe us when we said that we were serious about only three password attempts."

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  • RE: MS-Jet Engine 4.x ODBC enabled databases to 1 Terabyte/5 billion rows (or) SQL SERVER?

    erichansen1836 (9/15/2015)


    ... In this day and age, rarely do systems last longer than a couple years anyway.

    I had an interesting experience about a year ago. I worked for an...

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  • RE: The History of the VCS

    Rod at work (9/15/2015)


    Wayne West (9/14/2015)


    I'll be honest: I currently do not use a version of VCS. I did back in the Dos days using BRIEF, someone came out...

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  • RE: The History of the VCS

    I'll be honest: I currently do not use a version of VCS. I did back in the Dos days using BRIEF, someone came out with a source control package...

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