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You also need to discuss with your contractee how often you plan to invoice them and how long they have to pay you. This is VERY IMPORTANT. If...
January 11, 2008 at 6:07 am
Unfortunately, you can't just not use SQL Server every day. You have to make time. Schedule yourself during lunch or an hour before / after work and use...
January 11, 2008 at 6:03 am
Jack & Matt,
You were both right. Non-numeric empty string that I couldn't fix on the query side. Had to mask it in the report.
Thanks to both of you...
January 10, 2008 at 11:25 am
Gosh darnit! I had multiple windows open this morning and thought I put this one in the SSRS forum. Sorry all.
But I'll take Matt's suggestion and see if...
January 10, 2008 at 10:55 am
You might be stuck with making the DBA of the other database export the data as a flat file and then hooking up with that.
But I'm positive I read...
January 10, 2008 at 10:11 am
That's not what I meant. I only ever use the OLE DB sources and destinations. Hence, I don't know the trick (and there is one, I remember seeing...
January 10, 2008 at 8:42 am
Technically, nothing should be using the SA account. If you have jobs, processes, users or anything else using the SA account, you've already got a serious security problem.
SA should...
January 10, 2008 at 8:26 am
And once the email goes out, even if it's only to legit business users, it only takes one "blonde moment" to forward the email to someone outside of the business,...
January 10, 2008 at 8:14 am
I always use OLE DB sources, so I really can't answer that question for you. Has anyone else done ODBC sources?
I recommend the SSIS book put out by McGraw...
January 10, 2008 at 8:03 am
What you need to do next is add a data flow task to the control Flow. Data flow should be in the Toolbox. Add that, double-click the icon,...
January 10, 2008 at 7:29 am
Yes, that's what I was looking for, but couldn't find it because I was looking in BOL under "Table" instead of "Database".
And in BOL 2000, they actually list "statement" as...
January 10, 2008 at 6:52 am
You can also use the COALESCE() function to pull everything together.
Declare @cols varchar(4000);
Select @cols = COALESCE(@cols + ', ' + MyColName, MyColName)
from MyTable Order by MyDate;
Select @cols;
The order by...
January 10, 2008 at 5:40 am
You want scary documentation?
Google "SA Account" or "SA Account best practices". This should come up with plenty. Especially since so many worms & viruses use the SA account...
January 10, 2008 at 4:37 am
And then there are global temp tables that start with 2 pound signs (##d). These tables are available to any connection using the database so long as there are...
January 10, 2008 at 4:21 am
You're also going to have to create your destination data source before you do anything. Once you've done that, add a Data Flow Task to the Control Flow. ...
January 10, 2008 at 4:16 am
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