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In response to this post, Chris writes: Jeff, I just got done reading your VB posts. I love those sarcastic posts you do.
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I've been playing around with a handy tool for creating Word and Excel files called OfficeWriter that's pretty impressive. Basically, you use Excel or Word to create templates utilizing data markers and merge fields which allow you to databind sections of the document to a data source.
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In most industries, beginners work on simple, short projects, using only the most basic concepts that they have learned. The experts in those industries, meanwhile, work on things that are very large, complicated, difficult to manage, and require lots of time, energy and resources.
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Just a quick post of some benchmarking code for our good friend Guayo at TheDailyWTF, in regards to this discussion. The debate is, essentially: Assuming everything is properly indexed, which is faster/more efficient?
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I just wanted to take a minute to highlight this thread in the sqlteam forums:
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=39736
It's really interesting stuff, and a bunch of us worked together to come up with some really cool ideas about using T-SQL to solve the classic sliding tile puzzle -- you know, where tiles on a square board are mixed up, with one missing, and you slide them around until the picture is complete or they are in the proper order.
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Handy reminder: The PARSENAME() function can be useful for parsing small strings. It returns parts 1-4 (working right to left) of a string, with each part delimited by periods.
For example:
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This also is my first ever blog. Very nice! I am definitely looking forward to the content on this page, we've got some great people here and the posts should be informative and I'm sure quite entertaining as well!
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