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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ed Wagner (6/10/2016)


    WayneS (6/10/2016)


    Phil Parkin (6/8/2016)


    And why not ask them to make it idempotent while you're at it:

    IF COL_LENGTH('dbo.mytable', 'col1') IS NULL

    BEGIN

    ...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/10/2016)


    Brandie Tarvin (6/10/2016)


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    We're currently using a data warehouse for this. The ETL isn't too nasty, but it took us forever to figure out the best...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/10/2016)


    Steve Thompson-454462 (6/10/2016)


    Brandie Tarvin (6/10/2016)

    Thanks for the reply.

    I wonder... Our reporting team has a database where they essentially flatten all our data into giant tables...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Thompson-454462 (6/10/2016)


    Brandie Tarvin (6/9/2016)


    Y.B. (6/9/2016)


    So what do you say when your boss announces in a meeting that 'we' should look into NoSQL? No really...what do you say?

    I realize...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    And some of us thought the Microsoft certification process was debt-heavy. Glad none of us have to do this.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ThomasRushton (6/10/2016)


    Ed Wagner (6/10/2016)


    Brandie Tarvin (6/10/2016)


    Wait. Are you talking about you or the OP?

    I thought you were talking about the OP.

    I thought so too. They can be a little...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ThomasRushton (6/10/2016)


    Brandie Tarvin (6/10/2016)


    ThomasRushton (6/10/2016)


    Am I being unreasonable in now thinking "perhaps you're not the one who should be doing this"?

    I'm going to say Yes only because DB Mail is...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ThomasRushton (6/10/2016)


    Am I being unreasonable in now thinking "perhaps you're not the one who should be doing this"?

    I'm going to say Yes only because DB Mail is incredibly confusing the...

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  • RE: how can i install and configure smtp server/services

    naveenareddy.dba (6/9/2016)


    Hi

    i tried this but its giving the error like this

    Msg 15123, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_configure, Line 62

    The configuration option 'Database Mail XPs' does not exist, or it...

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  • RE: how can i install and configure smtp server/services

    naveenareddy.dba (6/10/2016)


    Hi

    yes it is the sql server 2012.

    i have done all the things still mail is not sending the status is failed its saying.

    i uploaded the screen... please suggest the...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Y.B. (6/9/2016)


    So what do you say when your boss announces in a meeting that 'we' should look into NoSQL? No really...what do you say?

    I realize that there are good...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ed Wagner (6/8/2016)


    Lynn Pettis (6/8/2016)


    Mention Dynamic SQL and suddenly that is THE solution for the immediate problem, but what problems may it cause down the road?

    Won't be surprised if we...

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  • RE: Non sysadmins have been denied permission Error on job that previously worked

    Ahha! A clue.

    The SQL Server Agent Service is running under an application domain account instead of our usual SQL Server Agent Service account for some reason. So I am now...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    <headdesk>

    User asks me to move this bit of code into QA:

    ALTER TABLE MyTable

    ADD Col1 INT,

    Col2 INT

    GO

    I push back and say "Please add your statement terminator" because...

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  • RE: Non sysadmins have been denied permission Error on job that previously worked

    Eric M Russell (6/8/2016)


    In MSDB, the following database level roles grant members various levels of permission to do things like monitor or start jobs.

    SQLAgentUserRole

    SQLAgentReaderRole

    SQLAgentOperatorRole

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188283(v=sql.110).aspx

    The testers already had those...

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