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  • RE: How to force column explicitly to string type before we export to excel

    You could try adding a single quote, as the first character, to each value exported. When Excel sees a single quote as the first character of a cell it treats...



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  • RE: Migrating Multiple Tables from one DB to Another

    Phil's suggestion also makes it much easier to update just one table, or a subset of tables.



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  • RE: Migrating Multiple Tables from one DB to Another

    Jerid421 (9/22/2016)


    Alvin,

    Thanks for the response! Wouldn't running a task be a one-time thing though? I want to run this package daily to make sure that the data in...



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  • RE: Migrating Multiple Tables from one DB to Another

    Take a look at the "Transfer SQL Server Objects Task" task. If it works for you, it could save you a lot of work.



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  • RE: how to convert navarchar to datetime

    Jeff Moden (9/21/2016)


    A "SendDate" as an NVARCHAR(4000)? Now that's a table that probably needs to be redesigned a bit. 😉

    Well, depends on how far in the future SendDate might...



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  • RE: SP inserts into table

    mcfarlandparkway (9/20/2016)


    Based on this below SP.How to know this sp is updating or inserting into a specific table?

    Do we need to specify table name here?

    CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[sampleLog_Insert]

    @table varchar(30),

    @date ...



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  • RE: Non-clustered index question

    Looks like you have lots to learn about indexing, but I'm not the right person to do the teaching.

    ... I know technically a table without a clustered index is considered...



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  • RE: T-SQL: EOMONTH

    BrainDonor (9/19/2016)


    I've played a little more (this is a nice diversion from trying to understand reduction and distribution in QlikView) and it appears to depend upon the use of the...



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  • RE: T-SQL: EOMONTH

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    BrainDonor (9/19/2016)


    I couldn't see any of the answers that matched what I believed I should be getting - then I played around a little.

    Where dates are concerned...



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  • RE: T-SQL: EOMONTH

    BrainDonor (9/19/2016)


    I couldn't see any of the answers that matched what I believed I should be getting - then I played around a little.

    Where dates are concerned it is probably...



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  • RE: Rewriting the code using merge statement

    GilaMonster (9/9/2016)


    ...

    Personally I rather avoid merge.

    Really? I now feel better about avoiding merge too. 🙂



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  • RE: Can I create a table in Database B from a view in Database A in a script that's using Database A?

    What happened when you tried it?



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  • RE: The Bones of SQL - The Calendar Table

    Keep in mind that if you have a data warehouse with a date dimension, you may already have a useful calendar table.



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  • RE: Sql Server error log growing out of control

    I think your first priority should be dealing with what's causing the error messages, not the growing of the error log.



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  • RE: Changing destination csv filename

    Koen Verbeeck (9/7/2016)


    You could also just write an expression on the flat file connection manager.

    example

    This is how I normally do it.



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