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		<title>TSQL Challenge #13 Break The Batches, Pacmann Arithmetics Around Case</title>
		<link>http://www.waldar.org/blog/200909/tsql-challenge-13-break-batch-pacmann-arithmetics-case</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waldar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TSQL Challenge #13

My previous post was a very long one and it took me several hours just to write it properly, plus many hours to do the findings (which was a part of my day job, but most of the tests were done at home).
Having zero comment is a little frustrating to be honest, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TSQL Challenge #12 Using Date Functions And Recursive CTE, Laurent Schneider Fun Stuff</title>
		<link>http://www.waldar.org/blog/200908/tsql-challenge-12-using-date-functions-recursive-cte</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waldar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TSQL Challenge #12

I'm a bit late on this one !
The last submition date for TSQL Challenge #12 was yesterday !
But I had some holidays and the weather was sunny so I spend less time on my computer !
I couldn't use (nor understand) the arithmetics Pacmann used in the comments of the previous blog entrie.
He managed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NoCOUG SQL Challenge Author Solution, TSQL Challenge #12 !</title>
		<link>http://www.waldar.org/blog/200908/nocoug-sql-challenge-author-solution-tsql-challenge-12</link>
		<comments>http://www.waldar.org/blog/200908/nocoug-sql-challenge-author-solution-tsql-challenge-12#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waldar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NoCOUG Challenge

After many months, Iggy Fernandez published his own solution of the first annual NoCOUG SQL Challenge.
His solution was performing fast from the beginning according to the graph he sent to Chen Shapira back in the announcement days :

I never managed to achieve those kind of results, only Alberto and André could throw that magnitude [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First International NoCOUG SQL Challenge Is Over !</title>
		<link>http://www.waldar.org/blog/200908/first-international-nocoug-sql-challenge-is-over</link>
		<comments>http://www.waldar.org/blog/200908/first-international-nocoug-sql-challenge-is-over#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waldar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, this was a long wait for every participant of this challenge.
I entry the contest in April, and the winner has been announced yesterday by Iggy Fernandez and Chen Shapira.
It was indeed an amazing challenge and I thanks everyone who brought this up.
It was also the key factor for me to open this blog to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TSQL Challenge #11 Using Recursive CTE</title>
		<link>http://www.waldar.org/blog/200907/tsql-challenge-11-recursive-cte</link>
		<comments>http://www.waldar.org/blog/200907/tsql-challenge-11-recursive-cte#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waldar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is my proposal about the TSQL Challenge #11.
Given a product table, and a coupon table, we have to find within one or two coupons which combination gives the best discount, with additional rules :

 the discount price can not be less than 70% of the original price
 the total amount of the discount can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NoCOUG Got Nine, TSQL Got Eleven</title>
		<link>http://www.waldar.org/blog/200907/nocoug-got-nine-tsql-got-eleven</link>
		<comments>http://www.waldar.org/blog/200907/nocoug-got-nine-tsql-got-eleven#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waldar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NoCOUG

Well, I'm not really comparing comparable numbers here.
The NoCOUG last submit date was the last day of june, and therefore it is past.
Iggy Fernandez wrote about the nine different solutions he received (I very like the title he has chosen) !
I'm the seventh in the list there.
As I told before, my favorite solution to this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My TSQL Challenge 10 Pivot-UnPivot Solution</title>
		<link>http://www.waldar.org/blog/200906/my-tsql-challenge-10-pivot-unpivot-solution</link>
		<comments>http://www.waldar.org/blog/200906/my-tsql-challenge-10-pivot-unpivot-solution#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waldar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the query I sent to the TC team. I published it when I sent it, but they prefer to keep solution secret as long as the closure date isn't in the past, which I can understand.
I had fun using PIVOT and UNPIVOT operators to reduce the query size.
PIVOT / UNPIVOT syntax isn't part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TSQL Challenge #10, How To Process Horizontal Sorting</title>
		<link>http://www.waldar.org/blog/200906/tsql-challenge-10-how-to-process-horizontal-sorting</link>
		<comments>http://www.waldar.org/blog/200906/tsql-challenge-10-how-to-process-horizontal-sorting#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waldar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beyond Relational have released their last T-SQL Challenge, it's already number 10 !
French version has been translated on Antoine Gémis's blog.
Jacob Sebastian and the TC team is really active and involved in helping people to improve themselves with SQL and T-SQL.
For this challenge they offer a Free Training Webcast for those who have problems in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Analytics To Handle Breaks</title>
		<link>http://www.waldar.org/blog/200906/using-analytics-to-handle-breaks</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waldar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waldar.org/blog/?p=188</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When trying to solve last T-SQL Challenge I did find a query which fits well in both SQL Server and Oracle (with some syntax tweaking) and seems quite effective to me even on a ten millions rows table.
I said I'll try to use the more advanced analytics function of Oracle to solve the problem, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another TSQL Challenge : How To Handle Breaks !</title>
		<link>http://www.waldar.org/blog/200906/tsql-challenge-nine</link>
		<comments>http://www.waldar.org/blog/200906/tsql-challenge-nine#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waldar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beyondrelational published their new TSQL Challenge #9, and as usual Antoine Gémis translated it in french.
They have taken redefined the goal about those challenges which I think is a very nice move.
The goal of TSQL Challenges is to help people enhance their SET based query writing skills.
Most of the times, a SET based query performs [...]]]></description>
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