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  • RE: Empty TABLE

    Thank you for the post, very interesting one.

    (so, 63 people thought that they can create a table with no cols; if this becomes real, I am not sure how and...

    ww; Raghu
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    The first and the hardest SQL statement I have wrote- "select * from customers" - and I was happy and felt smart.

  • RE: SSIS-Transactions

    Thank you for the post, interesting one. (for me, the choices were obvious by practice)

    ww; Raghu
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    The first and the hardest SQL statement I have wrote- "select * from customers" - and I was happy and felt smart.

  • RE: Master Key creation

    Thank you, Steve, simple and good one.

    (couple of days ago, I did this on my dev box under one Instance, so was sure on securing the DMK)

    ww; Raghu
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    The first and the hardest SQL statement I have wrote- "select * from customers" - and I was happy and felt smart.

  • RE: Signing Procedures

    Thank you, Steve, for the post; very very good one and a new one to me.

    (SSC is a Hubble-Telescope of MSSQL... ):-D

    ww; Raghu
    --
    The first and the hardest SQL statement I have wrote- "select * from customers" - and I was happy and felt smart.

  • RE: Powershell parameters

    Thank you, Steve, for the post (a different kind, break from SQL for a day). This was very easy for me.

    ww; Raghu
    --
    The first and the hardest SQL statement I have wrote- "select * from customers" - and I was happy and felt smart.

  • RE: Login options

    Thank you, Steve, for the post.

    (I knew this by theory but never tried login creation for all options, except SQL auth login) 🙂

    ww; Raghu
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    The first and the hardest SQL statement I have wrote- "select * from customers" - and I was happy and felt smart.

  • RE: Duplicates

    h.tobisch (2/4/2015)


    You want to select all but the newest record, so,j

    why can't you say that ?

    +1

    ww; Raghu
    --
    The first and the hardest SQL statement I have wrote- "select * from customers" - and I was happy and felt smart.

  • RE: Duplicates

    Thank you, Steve, really good one. (more to see such questions)

    (at first... it did not made any sense to me.. all I was saying to myself was "this qtod is...

    ww; Raghu
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    The first and the hardest SQL statement I have wrote- "select * from customers" - and I was happy and felt smart.

  • RE: Detaching restrictions

    Thank you, Steve, for the post, really good one. (I was sure on what to select by practice)

    ww; Raghu
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    The first and the hardest SQL statement I have wrote- "select * from customers" - and I was happy and felt smart.

  • RE: Group By, Count, and NULLs

    Hany Helmy (2/1/2015)


    Maybe tomorrow QoTD will be:

    COUNT(*) AS MyCount

    And MyCount value will be 2 in this case (*) for the Null rows 😛

    +1

    Or, using field "Mychar" in the aggregate...

    ww; Raghu
    --
    The first and the hardest SQL statement I have wrote- "select * from customers" - and I was happy and felt smart.

  • RE: SOME rows

    Thank you for the post, Steve, very good one.

    At first, I marked the"1" choice, but didn't feel it right, then thought it will be true for all rows as the...

    ww; Raghu
    --
    The first and the hardest SQL statement I have wrote- "select * from customers" - and I was happy and felt smart.

  • RE: EXCEPT

    Thank you Steve for the post, good one.

    ww; Raghu
    --
    The first and the hardest SQL statement I have wrote- "select * from customers" - and I was happy and felt smart.

  • RE: The PIVOT

    Ed Wagner (1/27/2015)


    I'm also someone who doesn't use pivot much at all. It seems like I have to look up the syntax nearly every time I use it.

    In one...

    ww; Raghu
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    The first and the hardest SQL statement I have wrote- "select * from customers" - and I was happy and felt smart.

  • RE: The PIVOT

    Carlo Romagnano (1/27/2015)


    ...See "Estimated Subtree Cost" and "Estimated Number of Rows"

    Thanks, Carlo.

    (Note to self: just seeing EP graphic representation is not enough.. so please dig deeper and see properties...

    ww; Raghu
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    The first and the hardest SQL statement I have wrote- "select * from customers" - and I was happy and felt smart.

  • RE: The PIVOT

    Carlo Romagnano (1/27/2015)


    Strange, but the version with PIVOT is a bit slower than that with GROUP BY. See execution plan!

    ...

    actually I was doing the same thing on v2012, but...

    ww; Raghu
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    The first and the hardest SQL statement I have wrote- "select * from customers" - and I was happy and felt smart.

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