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12:47 AM
@swasheck another recent blog post that may be useful
 
 
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7:01 AM
Hi, I want to combine two different table's datas into one table using mysql query.
 
@Thirunisha Depends what you mean with combine.
 
@ypercube I mean Merge two tables.
 
Yes, I noticed your question. You have to clarify what should happen for rows that are identical (ignore the duplicates?). Or perhaps you want a more complicated merge.
 
good morning
 
@ypercube yes I want to ignore the duplicates, but at the same time both tables also having some same data's and also the different data's I want to merge the different datas onlly .Is this possible....
 
7:12 AM
@Thirunisha Edit the question and 1.add the CREATE TABLE statements and 2.add sample data ( a few rows from the 2 tables) and what should happen as result.
@Marian Morning
 
@ypercube I ignore the duplicate means the id's are repeated.what is the solution for that...
 
7:39 AM
Read my comments and use this to edit your question It's unclear now and if you leave it as it is, it will probably be closed.
 
 
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9:09 AM
I think you have to use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.EVENTS table to gather all the active events and then construct and run the DROP EVENT statements. — ypercube 41 mins ago
This is an answer not a comment!
 
10:03 AM
@PaulWhite thnx. I don't feel very answer'ly today.
 
 
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11:07 AM
@ypercube Fair enough :)
 
Am I wrong in believing this migrated question off topic?
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Q: Multi-row INSERT rejected at SqlServer2005?

user2545759What's wrong with my query? :( USE tempdb; IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.OrderTotals', 'V') IS NOT NULL DROP VIEW dbo.OrderTotals; IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.OrderDetails', 'U') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE dbo.OrderDetails; GO CREATE TABLE dbo.OrderDetails ( oid INT NOT NULL, pid INT NOT NULL, qty INT NOT NULL, PRIMARY K...

 
@MartinSmith No, I just added VtC #2
 
@MartinSmith nope, it really is off-topic.
 
Other: not advanced
 
vtc #3 completed
 
11:14 AM
 
Thanks. I was pretty sure it was but noticed that no one else had voted to close and upvote activity (which seems pointless as rejected migrations are auto deleted)
 
@MartinSmith Did you add that custom reason? Cool if you did!
 
@PaulWhite Yes, I just worded it off the phrase in the FAQ dba.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic
 
@MartinSmith Was nice to see the option. I will remember it.
 
11:57 AM
@ypercube reaches 10K
 
@PaulWhite Hey, thnx!
 
12:25 PM
@PaulWhite certainly something I can help with :-).
especially when he didn't ever say he likes databases. :-?
 
12:36 PM
@Marian Must I declare it?
 
@ypercube now I admit I was a bit of a moron. You said you loved games, so I shouldn't need any other proof that you're a great guy :-). Sorry ;).
 
@Marian no need. I thought it was a joke I missed.
 
@ypercube it was a joked I missed on doing well :)
 
@Marian: as an experiment (unrelated to the discussion). Can you send another line to @ypercube (or edit the above)?
 
@ypercube hi there!
can't edit the upper one
(does the ignore work well?)
 
12:48 PM
Sorry, busy playing with the new tools. No, I don't think I have ever ignored anyone in the SE chats.
You and @PaulWhite are closing to the 10k mark, too.
 
@ypercube well enjoy the new tools. Hopefully you won't go the Phil way now, after reaching 10k.
 
Halfway to becoming a 'trusted user' :)
 
yeah, I'm fighting Paul, he's fighting me, it's a brave world. (I guess I'm winning the bad jokes contest)
 
Any time before 9AM endgadget is blocked from work. Why the hell is that?
 
@Zane does the sysadmin come to the office at that point?
 
12:58 PM
@Zane Because you haven't reached 20K (trusted user) yet.
And because of:
Went to the gas station instead of my coffee shop. #poorlifedecisions
 
lol both good points.
 
Ooo!
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Q: Can we have an Off-Topic > Belongs on StackOverflow option?

Aaron BertrandI'd like for our users to have the ability to vote to close as off-topic > belongs on StackOverflow. Almost all of our migrations have gone there and, unfortunately, the current process is confusing. Users have to raise a custom flag in order to perform the same kind of migration they're used to ...

Implemented - I missed that.
 
Wierd isn't it.
 
1:35 PM
@eric.itzhak Are you kidding me? I get ads everytime I try downloading illegal media. — FreshPrinceOfSO 9 secs ago
and please vtc
 
1:50 PM
Wow. This could be made into a movie. So many responses, so little time...
 
@AaronBertrand thanks for the link to Paul's blog. that one's great
 
> An Anti-Harassment Review Committee (AHRC) made up of the Executive Manager and three members of the Board of Directors
are these all men?
 
@FreshPrinceOfSO doubt it
Two females are part of the Directors-At-Large: sqlpass.org/AboutPASS/BoardofDirectors.aspx
And arguably +0.5 (LaRock) :-)
 
2:07 PM
@AaronBertrand nice
i like that picture of him on the board of directors
seems like he's hamming it up :)
 
@swasheck and that is different from every other picture how? :-)
 
@AaronBertrand their photographer sucks, for sure :)
 
@AaronBertrand every other picture of him? or of the other members?
 
@swasheck every other picture of Tom
 
@AaronBertrand ah. point taken :)
he bears a faint resemblance to Aykroyd in that picture
 
2:17 PM
@AaronBertrand what does that mean?
 
:10184922 uhhhh .... playing to the camera. it means, ..., ... being overly silly or overly dramatic to appear a certain way ... i think.
 
@ypercube see the urbandictionary variant :-).
 
@bluefeet that sometimes Tom can be a bit effeminate
 
2:37 PM
what's a good word to describe data that doesn't grow
 
@FreshPrinceOfSO stable? flatline?
plateaued?
 
would stagnant fit?
stagnant data?
@AaronBertrand i need to look this one up
nevermind, i can't read english
 
@FreshPrinceOfSO that depends, is it truly stagnant, or changing but not getting bigger?
 
not getting bigger
 
For example, SQL Sentry's database stores historic data, and it will stop growing at some point. I wouldn't call it stagnant, because we are updating current data constantly, compressing older data, and deleting really old data. So growth is stagnant but the data isn't.
We're just not incurring any additional space.
 
2:40 PM
Yeah, that makes sense.
 
@ypercube i was just reflecting on the roughest flight i've ever had ... it was the hour from athens to thessaloniki.
 
@swasheck Why was it so rough? Turbulence?
 
I love turbulence.
 
@ypercube yes. i think we hit every cloud over the sea.
@FreshPrinceOfSO so do my kids. i don't like it much
 
I giggle at people starting to freak out when we fly through it
 
2:46 PM
@FreshPrinceOfSO i just get all quiet and (i've heard) pale
 
@FreshPrinceOfSO somehow I already knew you did
 
@Lamak don't get me wrong. I'm terrified of roller coasters
 
@swasheck I enjoy air and sea travel, even when it's really shaky. My wife is exactly like you (I mean the quite and pale) - she usually wakes me up in such moments.
 
@ypercube i really enjoy air and sea travel too ... but air turbulence is awful for me. i dont wake up my wife ... i prefer she stops talking to me
 
I don't really mind turbulence either. Same with earthquakes (well, except when they are really really strong earthquakes)
 
2:49 PM
she gets the "leave-me-alone" hand when i'm too stressed about it
 
@swasheck why? a prayer together does wonders :-).
 
i just dont fly enough to really trust it
@Marian talk to the hand. :) i'll pray by myself thankyouverymuch
 
@swasheck :D, aww, come on, you weren't flying now.
 
@Marian not you ... just saying that's how it is :)
 
@swasheck why would you fly to Thessaloniki? I flew Athens > Santorini. Much better destination. :-)
 
2:50 PM
@AaronBertrand it was an organized educational trip. there's some historical value in thess :) (or at least a museum)
 
@swasheck ah, caught it before the edit :)
 
@swasheck Did you go to Meteora? (halfway between Athens and Thess.)
 
@ypercube no. we went athens->cench/corinth->athens->thess->turkey
 
@ypercube I went to Meteora. We drove around the country for 10 days or so. One of our best vacations ever.
 
looks awesome
 
2:55 PM
The Metéora (, , lit. "middle of the sky", "suspended in the air" or "in the heavens above" — etymologically related to "Meteorite") is one of the largest and most important complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Greece, second only to Mount Athos. The six monasteries are built on natural sandstone rock pillars, at the northwestern edge of the Plain of Thessaly near the Pineios river and Pindus Mountains, in central Greece. The nearest town is Kalambaka. The Metéora is included on the UNESCO World Heritage List under criteria I, II, IV, V and VII. History The Theopetra caves sou...
 
@swasheck Haha. The reference was arther to this: google.com/…
 
@ypercube i know :)
 
@swasheck "Let us know if reboot doesn't fix the problem."
did a reboot fix the problem?
 
@Lamak not yet. not done yet
 
@swasheck let us know if it doesn't ;-)
 
3:29 PM
RT @Louis_CK_Comedy: If you're in a clown posse, you don't need to tell us you're insane. We know. Nobody's thinking you're an emotionally…
 
4:01 PM
@ypercube to save me from learning anything, quick synopsis of what's going on here please?
 
@AaronBertrand do you use NHL gamecenter on your phone?
 
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Q: What are the valid formats of a PostgreSQL schema name?

Ramon TayagI can't seem to find documentation that describes the valid formats of a PostgreSQL schema name. I know that a schema name cannot: start with a number have spaces start with pg_ What else? Where should I look?

@Zane no, just ScoreCenter. If I'm not watching a game it's usually because I'm at volleyball so couldn't actually watch anyway...
 
@AaronBertrand You mean the discussion?
 
Deleting that in 3...2...
 
haha. really? I don't mind whatever you do there, even deleting my comment.
 
4:04 PM
I was just hoping I would have someone who understands how poor the app is.
 
No, just trying to understand how technical the conversation is, without having to understand.
 
It sends notifications to me about a news item that isn't posted yet.
 
The discussion was between @horse and efesar, about Postgres' rules on identifiers.
It would have ended earlier I guess, if efesar had updated his answer with some of the info/explanation provided by horse. But he has left his answer unchanged - which kind of irritated me as well, enough to leave the chatty comment.
 
@efesar if you believe the conversation is getting too chatty, let's incorporate some of the new information revealed in the comments into the answer, then we can clean up the comment thread? — Aaron Bertrand 10 secs ago
 
Yes, noticed. and removed my comment.
 
4:12 PM
My wife and her sisters absolutely love this Geico "Hump Day" commercial
She walked into the office today and said "MikeMikeMikeMikeMikeMikeMikeMike what day is it?"
 
@AaronBertrand it's hilarious
 
/sigh
 
@Zane smatter?
 
That comercial. I do not get the appeal
 
@ypercube debating whether it's a valid question at all. It's basically asking to regurgitate documentation.
@Zane oh, yes, I agree
 
4:17 PM
@AaronBertrand Do you see this as well
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Q: Flag queue shows items for review but no items to review

bluefeetI was in reviewing flags on Stack Overflow in the Not an Answer queue and I cleared all the flags that were being shown to me in that queue. While the page is no longer showing items to review, the list on the side of the page shows that there were still 32 items for review: I waited a few min...

 
I'm pretty sure Geico exists purely to iritate me.
 
No, numbers seem to match for me
 
soooooooo
@Lamak rebooting was unnecessary
beating the windows team is in order
 
@AaronBertrand weird, it has been showing 32+ items with nothing to review
 
bounced all nodes of the AG cluster within a matter of seconds of each other ... partial failure
ttthhhppppppttttt
 
4:19 PM
@bluefeet did you try a second browser?
 
@AaronBertrand yes
 
Weird, shrug
 
right now it says 5 items, but only shows me 2 to review
 
@swasheck good
@swasheck please do
 
Looks like it's just you.
 
4:20 PM
@bluefeet shift+f5?
HOLY CRAP!!! imgur is now unblocked!!!!
 
Sweet jeebus
 
Change we can believe in
 
@AaronBertrand weird
 
@AaronBertrand the old waiving arm just aint what it used to be.
 
4:25 PM
> Like other European monarchies, the Belgian monarch has no executive powers and plays a largely ceremonial role.
 
@swasheck He's just some A-hole who owns a lot of land from ages ago.
What's really weird to me is how much Americans pay attention to that sort of stuff. Royal Weddings and whatnot.
 
reminds people of a simpler time long ago ...
 
4:46 PM
This is funny. A question without a title: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/187235
 
5:20 PM
So do I convert both of these answers to comments?
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Q: 64-Bit OLEDB Provider for ODBC (MSDASQL) issues

yrushkaI need to create a Linked Server from SQL 2008 SP1 64 bit instance located on a Windows 64 bit 2003 SP2 server towards a Mysql Server. As many of you know MSDASQL provider for 64 bit systems was put available by Microsoft later in a hot fix. This is what I have done so far: Install MySQL conne...

 
JNK
I would just delete the new one
and gbns should probably get edited to include some of the data
 
@JNK yes. this is what i was typing
 
JNK
sorry I have been slacking in the mod department of late
 
@JNK recall election?!? :)
 
@JNK well the link is dead. I've found it in another location, but it's wall of text with no code - think it would be cleaner to update the link and convert to comment.
Especially since it didn't end up helping the OP.
 
5:48 PM
VtC dupe if anyone is bored
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Q: What is wrong with this SQL statement syntax? Msg 170, Incorrect syntax near '('

tester123 USE [WORDDB] GO /****** Object: Index [noun_minor] Script Date: 07/03/2013 13:34:21 ******/ CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [noun_minor] ON [dbo].[2013Words] ( [NOUN_NO] ASC, [MIN_NO] ASC )WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, I...

And actually it should be a dupe of this one
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Q: Microsoft SQL Service Management Studio 2005 'Script XXX as CREATE To' problem

stewshaWhen using the 'Script Index as CREATE To' to duplicate an index from one table to another table I am not able to run the script. Without editing the generated code I get an error. I get the same error when working with any 'Script XXX as CREATE To' generated code. Any comments/suggestions to sol...

Well, maybe not. I think I need less caffeine.
 
6:07 PM
oh man.....typical aptem:
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Q: How to copy data and schema of all tables into a different database on the same server?

Артём ЦарионовUsing a script (however without using data import/export, without using backup restore, without using database copy) how can I copy complete tables (schema and data) from one database on the same server to another database on the same server? I've already tried to do what I've italicized above; ...

 
@Lamak gotta be a dupe
 
@swasheck I don't want to post comments asking details, but what does he means he doesn't has permissions for "data import/export"?, he can get a script out of it without executing anything. And if he doesn't have permissions for executing them, then he simply can't copy the data
 
Kimberly fixed her post
This makes no sense
@AaronBertrand sql.service and sql agent do the import/export, whereas the select into is done by something else — Артём Царионов 47 secs ago
 
@AaronBertrand I like this post a lot better now that it's readable.
 
6:24 PM
yeah, that's what's crazy
@AaronBertrand wouldnt that be crazy if i have millions of rows of data? — Артём Царионов 36 secs ago
 
Seriously, how does that dude stay employed
 
@AaronBertrand Through the good grace of our user base
I can't beleive how highly upvoted that stupid question about midi keyboards is.
Also, instead of asking "how do I do this in some cumbersome way because the logical way is broken" why not ask a completely different question, like "how do I fix this thing that is broken"? When I get a flat tire I don't call AAA and ask them to drive me to work, I ask them to come and fix my flat tire. — Aaron Bertrand 8 mins ago
hahahahaha!
I'm going to use that one.
 
@AaronBertrand beats me
 
I just don't get it
@AaronBertrand when running the copy database wizard, which accounts does it use to perform the operation? — Артём Царионов 2 mins ago
Did you actually RUN the wizard? Did you not even look at the screens that ASK YOU FOR CREDENTIALS?
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@AaronBertrand I am surprised you even engaged him.
 
6:35 PM
Me too. I guess I thought maybe a few months had passed and maybe a bit of common sense had transpired in the meantime. Apparently not.
 
@AaronBertrand he's thinking that if he uses the back-up/restore some sort of mystery account is performing the operation.
He seems to think that would be executed under SQLAgents account credentials...
I don't know where this idea comes from but I think that's what he's saying.
 
shrug I'm done
 
I would love to know where he works.
 
@Zane mmhmmm ...
 
He has to be the only guy in the IT department.
Either that or people at his work are sick of doing everything.
 
6:42 PM
@Zane thank you. im a sysadmin. i seem to have full permissions, yet i get an error the job failed. check the event log on the destination server for details. the event log just shows "error with packagename" there are no details associated with it — Артём Царионов 2 mins ago
He is a sysadmin
 
Waka Waka
 
Someone should send him to sadtrombone.com
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@swasheck you still can see imgur?
 
@AaronBertrand Haha!
 
Google translates Артём Царионов to Artyom Tsarionov... not on LinkedIn
Perhaps his twitter?
@Psycho_proger
I'm psycho programmer and I can't live without computer and programming.
4 tweets, 0 followers, following 5 users
 
6:46 PM
I can't believe these are the only two options in the copy database wizard
You can have extremely unsafe or ridiculously slow. Pick one!
 
@zane perhaps the source database needs to go offline to be able to do copy database? — Артём Царионов 5 mins ago
Sure thing man just shut the whole thing down.
 
That's possible actually, if you need to detach the database, you need to kick out any users. He's probably in the context of the database, so FAIL.
 
@AaronBertrand oooooh, that's very likely
 
I VtC'd as unclear what you're asking because, well, he's asking the wrong $&#*&$# question.
 
@AaronBertrand i vtc because you vtc
 
6:48 PM
he could also use the generate scripts to create the database and schema. And then "Data import/export"
 
He can't figure out how to make any of these work. He's like the Bumbling Sidekick
 
@FreshPrinceOfSO Physcho programmer....
@AaronBertrand He's probably got a different window open that he can't see that's connected trying to generate scripts from that same database.
 
he's very icompetent....and asks terrible questions. But at least he is generous about rep
he's given 11,800 rep points on bounties
 
@Lamak yes
> I'm psycho programmer and I can't live without computer and programming
he also seems like he can't live with them, either
 
@Lamak well yeah because essentially StackOverflow users have been the reason he gets a paycheck. I'd love to pay someone with rep to do my job.
 
6:52 PM
@AaronBertrand never thought about it that wat......but true :-)
 
I should put up an ad on the careers site. "Do my work; I will give you rep. Then go on vacation."
 
@AaronBertrand i can barely do my own job, don't challenge me to do yours :)
 
I'm most amazed at how much rep he could have. Mostly from some terrible questions
 
@Lamak a lot of his points come from this one question.
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Q: Using a piano keyboard as a computer keyboard

Артём ЦарионовI have RSI problems and have tried 30 different computer keyboards which all caused me pain. Playing piano does not cause me pain. I have played piano for around 20 years without any pain issues. I would like to know if there is a way to capture MIDI from a MIDI keyboard and output keyboard strok...

 
@Zane yup
it still amazes me....he has 44 gold badges, all of them about good questions!!
so. Ironic
 
6:55 PM
@Lamak there should be brown badges for ... uhhh ... not good questions
@AaronBertrand is that like "marcia, marcia, MARCIA!" ?
 
...........
@AaronBertrand thanks! i just crafted my own solution :) seems like its even faster than the copy wizard — Артём Царионов 16 secs ago
 
WTF indeed
he should sell his solution then
 
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