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  • RE: Guru needed- Real versus BigInt

    I would still stick to char(10) and maybe consider a date column on the table so you know when you loaded the specific numbers into your system (in case there...

  • RE: Guru needed- Real versus BigInt

    I do a lot of work with phone number filtering on a daily basis. The structure for every column I have throughout the system that holds...

  • RE: SQL Problem with case statement

    So, I checked the BOL... it seems like the ELSE clause is required, even if left empty...

    "ELSE else_result_expression

    Is the expression returned if no comparison operation evaluates to...

  • RE: Memory Leak in SQL SP3?

    One other option that made my life MUCH easier: I had the opportunity to follow the concepts of spreading files around the server. In other words,...

  • RE: Bad Date on LastBatch

    Jeff, that's likely the case. I have been noticing a correlation between by local user app crashing and these processes sitting there... In rechecking my app,...

  • RE: Bad Date on LastBatch

    I don't think it's specific to that application. I have two different main applications running that my local users use, and both applications occasionally have processes...

  • RE: Bad Date on LastBatch

    Hmm... well, lets see if we get any toher responses before we decide its normal

  • RE: Deleting rows

    This is an easy one... I have had this problem before, and essentially it is because you don't have some kind of unique identifier on the record. ...

  • RE: Sorting

    How about:

    SELECT <rows>, COALESCE(<nullcolumn>, 'ZZZZ') AS <nullcolumn>

    FROM <table>

    ORDER BY <nullcolumn> ASC

  • RE: NULL values in source table don't add up

    Maybe I'm being overly simplistic here or this has already been tried, but why not something like this:

    SELECT SUM(CurrencyColumn) AS DollarSum

    WHERE CurrencyColumn NOT NULL

    Point taken. And I'm not offended... no autopsy, no foul.

  • RE: Lost the MDF, have the LDF

    Yeah, thanks, Dalec for your insight. I wasn't shifting the blame to the NetAdmin (did I hit a nerve, though?), I was implying that I made...

  • RE: Lost the MDF, have the LDF

    Actually, I was assured by the NetAdmin that my server was being backed up (the partitions that hold my MDF's and LDF's) as part of the backup...

  • RE: DBA in PHX

    Steve,

    I'm not offended, and I use the forums daily. That won't stop.

    There are a few billion people on the planet, and all have different opinons, and...

  • RE: DBA in PHX

    As I saw in another posting set, the data guys outlined what they really wanted, and the people that would fit with that group likely responded. ...

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