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  • RE: Slowly Changing dimension inside a ForEach Loop container<!-- 864 -->

    To add to the recommendation to remove it, the SCD component in SSIS (at least in 05 and 08) is a piece of crap. The Inserts are fine. ...


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  • RE: SQL DBA high ended question (5+ years’ experience)

    Brandie Tarvin (8/15/2014)


    It's Wednesday. 3 people walk up to your cube. One is from the QA team, one is from the reporting team, and one is a business user. The...


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  • RE: SSIS set stored procedure parameter dates via SQL agent

    Adam,

    I have a similar concern for one of my packages. I approached this differently, however. I use a SQL Server Configuration Table and have a parameter which...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Table creation policies. Is this silly or is it just me?

    We don't typically pre-estimate growth and the like in a justification document, but as a DB Dev we do write ALL scripts for the DBAs to run. There's a...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: passing parameters to stored procedure through OPENQUERY

    ScottPletcher (8/14/2014)


    I don't believe you can use varchar(max) across linked servers; try varchar(8000).

    You can. I do it to replace the XML, which you can't pass.


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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (8/14/2014)


    Ed Wagner (8/14/2014)


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    djj (8/14/2014)


    ChrisM@Work (8/14/2014)

    remember '76/'77

    Wish I could remember what last year was like, I remember some nice days for '77 as I have a...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: SSIS capturing multiple variables

    john.brees (8/14/2014)


    Hello, I would be grateful if anyone could help me. I have to modify an SSIS package that someone else has written that prompts the user for a variable...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    djj (8/14/2014)


    ChrisM@Work (8/14/2014)

    remember '76/'77

    Wish I could remember what last year was like, I remember some nice days for '77 as I have a picture of me from a company...


    - 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 Job Is Not Picking Up The New Package Changes

    By chance is that information set by configuration?


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: How to prevent database access

    Just an additional note on this: Any seriously competent sysadmin with physical access to the box, unless it has no interfaces (USB, CD Roms, etc), can bypass just about...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: How to prevent database access

    dan-572483 (8/13/2014)


    Do you know the answer to my question? If auditing of all access is implemented can a sysadmin block tracking of their own activity?

    Yes, they can. They...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: How to prevent database access

    Anything you turn off on a sysadmin, they can turn back on. Any restriction you give them they can remove. That's the point of being a sysadmin. It's...


    - 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: Copying from SQLSMS grid, pasting in Excel, the word "NULL" is pasted!

    sleipner (8/13/2014)


    As I mentioned a while back - I deal with extremely large ad-hoc reports that often have LOTS of null values in them. When you're trying to do...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: VARCHAR lat and long data fails when converting to NUMERIC, yet ISNUMERIC never returns 0

    Damnit, double post, sorry.


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: VARCHAR lat and long data fails when converting to NUMERIC, yet ISNUMERIC never returns 0

    Need a sample of the information in #t (aka, some row inserts), and your code doesn't match your table. But yeah, need to see what's in the table that's...


    - 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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