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  • RE: Censoring the Internet

    Revenant (1/11/2012)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/11/2012)


    Ah, so you can assign our a portion of your copyright. The authors retain copyright for their work published here, but they grant us...


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  • RE: SQL Server SSIS issue.

    Is this being ran from a job? Sounds like the SQLAgent login doesn't have system db rights.


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: SSIS return nulls

    Text files would need the 'NULL' character (I forget what it is offhand, it's so rarely used) included in it to return a real NULL. Otherwise it's 0 length...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: The Stubborn DBA

    To toss in an "It Depends"...

    Travis, I agree with you and others that you have to keep the time to solution in perspective. I also have that occassional stubborn...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Censoring the Internet

    There are a few sections in this bill that concern me, but I am not a lawyer, so I may not be seeing the whole picture that one of them...


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/10/2012)


    GilaMonster (1/10/2012)


    mtillman-921105 (1/10/2012)


    I guess I'm really the only nerd around here,

    You and me apparently. We'll go be hopeless somewhere...

    I had to choose between the "This...


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Companies - Horror Stories

    Perry Whittle (1/10/2012)


    Evil Kraig F (1/10/2012)


    Microsoft isn't perfect, they know it. Debugging 30 trillion lines of code across all their software is difficult. Their partners being even less...


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: Censoring the Internet

    http://www.senate.gov

    Bill # is S.968

    Put it into the box for 'THOMAS' and it will bring you to a non-pasteable link.

    The final link is here for the pdf as of this date:

    http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s968rs/pdf/BILLS-112s968rs.pdf


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Companies - Horror Stories

    Perry Whittle (1/10/2012)


    *yawn* now we've all finished slagging off MS, their products and their Gold partners can we move onto something else. A lot of the people in this thread...


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: Few tricky Questions about SQL Server 2008 that I came across...

    LutzM (1/10/2012)


    @craig-2: Answer A has an ORDER BY but invalid syntax.

    My foot tastes GREAT! I think I'll swallow to the knee next time.

    The problem in general from my point...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Few tricky Questions about SQL Server 2008 that I came across...

    This one makes me laugh:

    Q: Which of the following is an improved performance feature that uses bitmap filters for selecting minimal rows with queries?

    A. Table partitions

    B. Star Join

    C. Where clause

    D....


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: Few tricky Questions about SQL Server 2008 that I came across...

    brendan woulfe (1/10/2012)


    GilaMonster (1/10/2012)


    JagWalia (1/10/2012)


    Q. Which of the following statements can be used to provide sorted result set based in the CustomerName column?

    A. SELECT ROW_NUMBER() AS RN, CustomerName from Customers...


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    WayneS (1/10/2012)


    GilaMonster (1/9/2012)


    mtillman-921105 (1/9/2012)


    Then, thanks to one of Ms. Shaw’s recommended books, now I'm stuck in physics and cosmology. :blink: The book I'm reading now is The Fabric of the...


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: SQL Agent Job succeeds even though step should fail

    Brandie Tarvin (1/9/2012)


    Evil Kraig F (1/6/2012)


    Brandie Tarvin (1/6/2012)


    To be clear: I'm not concerned with fixing the timeout issue itself. I've got that covered. What I'm concerned with is how to...


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • RE: Use of variables in functions

    Lisset (1/6/2012)


    Hi everybody, I has try the follows sentences where use in the funcion DATEADD two variables var1 and var2 but show a error.

    What's the error?

    Please how I can use...


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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