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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (5/10/2012)


    Brandie Tarvin (5/10/2012)


    Wow. I come back to The Thread and find the lot of you talking blasphemy.

    I think I shall strap myself to the porkchop launcher and launch...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Wow. I come back to The Thread and find the lot of you talking blasphemy.

    I think I shall strap myself to the porkchop launcher and launch myself out of reach...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (4/23/2012)


    Also congratulations! First standalone work, that's awesome! Love the title and the cover and I look forward to getting it.

    Thank you. I appreciate it.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (4/23/2012)


    Brandie Tarvin (4/23/2012)


    Hijacking the thread for another book announcement.

    You can read the details on the top post of my Google+ stream here: Legend of the Beemen

    That'll teach...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Hijacking the thread for another book announcement.

    You can read the details on the top post of my Google+ stream here: Legend of the Beemen

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

  • RE: Bulk Insert works but leave's spaces in data

    Eugene Elutin (4/23/2012)


    Try to drop and recreate destination table with SET ANSI_PADDING OFF, it's still supported in SQL 2012

    Note to OP: If you have data in this table and want...

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  • RE: Trying to trap 1st error in a restore snapshot command

    Why not do a bit of code before the restore in an IF EXISTS type of statement?

    All you have to do is search the sys.databases table where source_database_id IS...

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  • RE: Table with 2000 records - Clustered Scan or Index Scan?

    When you say Clustered Scan or Index Scan, as Gail already mentioned, a Clustered Scan is a Clustered Index Scan / Table Scan. You can also have Index Scans on...

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  • RE: Bulk Insert works but leave's spaces in data

    eddy-961438 (4/23/2012)


    its a shame because it works very fast.

    That's why the command works so fast, because it's not transforming data.

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  • RE: Alternative option to UNION ALL

    What I'm about to suggest may or may not help you. Performance is dependent on your schema and data. So test this out for performance before you put it into...

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  • RE: SSRS 2005

    Your biggest issue with converting the reports as BIDS 2k8 wants you to is that you will never be able to open them with 2k5 SSRS tools. As software is...

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  • RE: Strange Date overflow - what am I missing

    What you might consider is either a subquery, CTE, or TempTable for your initial Tally Table pull. Pull just the numbers from the Tally Table that you need and only...

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  • RE: pivot?

    This definitely looks like a job for dynamic SQL. The thing to remember, though, is that the PIVOT command requires some sort of aggregation, which may skew the result set.

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  • RE: sql

    It also depends on what you mean by "add." Are you referring to the Create Table statement or are you referring to adding the column to a resulting data set,...

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  • RE: Bulk Insert works but leave's spaces in data

    Your solution is to either don't use Bulk Insert (use SSIS and trim the data on import) or import the data into a staging table, trim the spaces off, then...

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