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  • RE: Made stupid mistake, need help removing duplicates

    Need more information about each schema to help you write the code directly, but here's the short form:

    SELECT

    -- all fields except identity

    FROM

    -- duped table

    GROUP BY

    -- all...


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  • RE: Make Bulk Changes to DTSX package?

    The only way I can think of modifying the schema components is to open it as XML, find/replace, then reload the XML. Sorry, I just brainfarted on the fact...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Simple SQL Question...

    You'll get no performance increases from their removal, but you'll probably get readability and maintenance improvements from having less objects to keep track of.

    EDIT: I should say no significant performance...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Looking for some advice on a career problem...

    I'm assuming you've tried this, but have you thought about beers after work with these people, individually, and having a frank discussion about what you're percieving? I'm not saying...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Best way to sync two databases?

    If possible, can you offer a lot more detail into the data status on the two databases and future intent?

    If you're looking at a complete overwrite on one of the...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Make Bulk Changes to DTSX package?

    Yes, but you have to prep to do it from the start, using configurations. However, in theory, you should only need to change the Data Source object. What...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Thousand Seperator Magic

    dogramone (12/3/2012)


    And unfortunately none of them are intelligent enough to investigate. Oh for the good old days when IT was a black box that no one got involved in...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Exercises in t-SQL

    ScottPletcher (12/3/2012)

    At 3AM, with production workers waiting, I don't want someone trying to design for something that will never exist!

    Perhaps, but honestly I was hard pressed to answer your...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Recursion with a Twist

    *wipes away a tear from his eye* Damn, Jeff... that's... that's just beautiful. *sniff*

    I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to get out of the...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Recursion with a Twist

    Steven Willis (11/30/2012)


    No loops, no cursors, no cte

    You've answered the data, not the problem, with this. You cannot recurse in both directions, you cannot deal with more than 2...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Recursion with a Twist

    capnhector (11/30/2012)

    so far an extension of my adjacency list by searching up and down (not the fastest thanks Mickey T. by the way) and dwains loop solution are the only...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Performance issue advise

    Sarwan (11/30/2012)


    I have also escalated to our infra team for any n/w port issues between websites hosting webserver and backend database server but they didn’t find any errors.

    Can you...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Identity Seeding

    Typically I do it for merge replication. Considering how much I try to avoid that particular method of replication, I don't do it much.


    - 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: Select query to determine unique values

    Olly, a question before I work this code.

    First, you put in 0-length strings, '', instead of NULLS where teh data is missing for PRVID/PrvName. Are these NULL, or actually...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: SSIS oddness

    Michael Gerholdt (11/30/2012)


    Somehow the TransactionOption had got set to "Required" on the first container, but not the others.

    Setting it back to "Supported" provided the expected behavior.

    Much appreciated!

    My pleasure. Sounds...


    - 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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