2013-03-25
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Dwain Camps
Double Counting and Sign Reversals
Make the ad-hoc analysis of identifying potentially double-counted or sign-reversed Accounting transactions simple and painless.
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Departures from Origins and Arrivals at Destinations
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2012-07-30
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2012-07-03
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Financial Rounding of Allocations
When rounded detail quantities are created by an allocation, often the total must foot back exactly to the allocated amount.
2012-03-19
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers