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  • RE: The Joy of Numbers

    I'm developing a system for tracking how many days it takes to complete a task from when it's requested, but I have to exclude weekends and holidays. The original...

  • RE: SQL - Derived Tables

    Very interesting technique, I can see that coming in handy. I really need to read more. 😉

  • RE: Billee-yons and Billee-yons of Gigabytes

    One thing that I notice as conspicuous in its absence is the mention of heat and electricity, and you can also throw in physical space. Adding more SAN/NAS/whatever devices...

  • RE: Need help replacing a cursor with set-based code (if possible!)

    Matt Miller (1/16/2008)


    Wayne - he's talking about having the ORDER BY in the select within the function. Otherwise - you have no guarantees that it will concatenate the lines...

  • RE: Need help replacing a cursor with set-based code (if possible!)

    David Jackson (1/16/2008)


    One more thing, you will want an Order by sptd_lineno in the function to guarantee they come out in the right order.

    I've taken to removing order by's in...

  • RE: Need help replacing a cursor with set-based code (if possible!)

    David Jackson (1/15/2008)


    You can use a function with no cursor for this.

    create function fn_GetComments (@keyno int)

    returns varchar(8000)

    as

    begin

    declare @comment varchar(8000)

    select @comment = coalesce(@comment,'') + Rtrim(sptd_text) from sptextdt

    where sptd_keyno = @keyno

    ...

    That's...

  • RE: Performance Tuning: Concatenation Functions and Some Tuning Myths

    Martin Bastable (1/2/2008)


    ....

    We contacted the suppliers and talked to a developer.

    ....Yes we use count(*) so our system can check if a table exists with a particular copy of our software...

  • RE: Becoming A DBA, Part 2

    A college degree is useful, but it will also help you to get your foot in the door. Lots of places will not even look at you, regardless of...

  • RE: Building a Better Career

    Being a compulsive information gatherer/cataloger, from early on and before MP3 and P2P, I had my CD collection cataloged in Access. I had over 500 discs, and wanted to...

  • RE: Free Training

    Steve Jones - Editor (12/28/2007)


    Too often I see companies still thinking the IT staff isn't important, especially when it comes to training. I think that will haunt them over time....

  • RE: Becoming A DBA, Part 1

    Excellent article. I've been a SQL Server DBA for over a decade, but I came at it from being a database developer in the early 80's in dBase III...

  • RE: Not So Anonymous

    Thanks for the link, Jay, I'm going to have to check that out.

    I spent a year contracting for a state education administration, developing a system that fed their student annual...

  • RE: When You're Out of the Office

    chris webster (12/21/2007)


    One of my favourite movies this year: Stardust.

    De Niro's performance alone is worth the entrance fee

    Seconded, thirded, etceterad! I picked it up last night at Best Buy...

  • RE: The T-SQL Test

    Steve,

    I just read the questions that you linked to: fantastic set! It's also definitely a good set to study when you're in the market and going to be facing...

  • RE: Data Ownership

    Steve Jones - Editor (12/19/2007)


    Maybe we shouldn't allow routers to be sold without security? That way the signal might enter your space, but you'd actively have to break in to...

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