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  • RE: Maintenance Plan

    New Born DBA (2/7/2014)


    Why is it not good practice to use Wizard when creating a maintenance plan? Most DBA's recommends creating it with the script so you have more control...


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  • RE: Oddball Interview Questions

    I've always disliked those types of trick questions, and I've sat often enough on both sides of the table.

    "How would you fill a cup of coffee with T-SQL?"

    "Get a good...


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  • RE: SSIS Lookup - Return Unique Matches Only

    My pleasure, we've all been there. Glad I could help.


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  • RE: Are criteria applied in order?

    Nope, they're not... not without a lot of workarounds.

    You can't control the order that the WHERE clause decides to apply the filters in. You can't even control if a...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: How comma separated values are divided into rows?

    Luis Cazares (2/6/2014)


    Evil Kraig F (2/6/2014)


    Jeff, do you have SSIS 2k8 available to you or do you need said examples in 2k5?

    That's just mean 😀

    :Whistling:


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  • RE: How comma separated values are divided into rows?

    Jeff Moden (2/6/2014)

    Heh... I'm used to, welcome, and embrace criticism. It's one of the tools I use to learn new things. For example, if someone could prove to...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Assigning an SQL NULL to an SSIS string - An SSIS Flaw ?

    I assume you're dumping to a recordset object for the ForEach loop?

    Swap the datatype before you include it into the object. (DT_str, 1252) instead of (DT_Date).

    The problem is more...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (2/6/2014)


    This might better if it was a public "Consensus" rather than what the OP thought. After all, the OP theoretically didn't know squat about the problem to...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Testing the new "This worked" functionality.

    SQLRNNR (2/6/2014)


    ChrisM@home (2/6/2014)


    This "page" is all white.

    It'll be allwhite on the night.

    This page for me is half white half green.:alien:

    Same, looks like it's got a 9 post maximum?


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  • RE: Testing the new "This worked" functionality.

    Wherever you go, there you are.


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Selecting rows in a table.. not so simple!

    marcipesa (2/6/2014)


    Table 3:

    A D E

    1 1b 1.8

    2 2b 2.3

    3 3a 0.6

    In the above result set, are you using Column B as your 'grouping' control?

    The reason I ask is I would...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Considerations for bulk-loading BLOBs?

    Then I wouldn't worry too much about it until you get down to brass tacks. In general, though, I would recommend an incremental load just to reduce log usage...


    - 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: SSIS Lookup - Return Unique Matches Only

    jvanderberg (2/6/2014)


    I am validating a large database of addresses. I've already deployed a number of ways to validate city, state and zipcode against a lookup database. As a...


    - 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: Considerations for bulk-loading BLOBs?

    Since you're moving to a new system, this would be a good time to doublecheck that you've got some best practices involved in self defense.

    In particular, for the concern you...


    - 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: 1 Simple Question

    No worries Newborn.

    It's not a bash on doing a maintenance plan, it's a bash on the maintenance plan object. It used to be rather buggy and it doesn't have...


    - 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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