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RE: How to pronounce SQL

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Obviously America is the king of the acronymn world. I seem to remember that one of the US Navy commander in chiefs has an acronymn for his title of USINCUS. For all the non-US subscribers do we invent any acronymns or do we just inherrit American ones?

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2003-05-30

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RE: Left Outer Join

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If I understand your wishes, it seems like you want to use a subquery... SELECT col1, col2, ( SELECT min(col3) from othertable where condition ) as col3 FROM maintable WHERE condition Is that what you are asking? Guarddata-

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2003-05-23

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RE: NT Groups and SQL Server Access Right

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Sounds like for whatever reason it can't enumerate the groups. Unless someone else has an idea, this sounds like a PSS call to Microsoft. K. Brian Kelley http://www.truthsolutions.com/ Author: Start to Finish Guide to SQL Server Performance Monitoring http://www.netimpress.com/shop/product.asp?ProductID=NI-SQL1

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2003-05-20

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RE: Boolean or Integer for comparison

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Overall the performance should be the same but you are wasting 3 bytes per row of data so always use the simplest value. If you think you may expand the value beyond ture and false then consider using tinyint (can be 0-255) but otherwise use simplest whichs is bit. Also, keep in mind, do not […]

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2003-05-20

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RE: Order by in Query problem

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You can use an identity field as mentioned or add a date column to your client briefcase - which you could then use for extra functionality like finding 'dead' briefcases or assessing briefcase take-up after a publicity drive. SQL Server isn't a flat file system so there is no dirty way TIKO to assess the […]

2003-05-12

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RE: Concurrent use of Stored Procedures

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Thanks! Did some tests here and this is the solution i've implemented. I have a dedicated table I lock exclusively. The other tables in the procedure are only locked when necessary, so I don't block our production system while the procedure is running (it's an ETL procedure). When executing this proc twice, you'll notice the […]

2003-05-07

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