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  • RE: Tally OH! An Improved SQL 8K “CSV Splitter” Function

    SQL Kiwi (9/4/2012)


    Blog post is up: http://bit.ly/ComputeScalar

    ... Every damn time I start thinking I'm 'good' at this software, you come by and break my brain gently. Thanks for the...


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  • RE: The Personal Checksum

    StephLocke (prev stephanie.sullivan) (8/30/2012)


    A waiter will get minimum wage in America irrespective of how crappy they are at their job. Don't be afraid to not tip!

    I fear you're missing...


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  • RE: SSIS - datetime manipulation

    Yes, but you'll end up doing it in a pair of derived structures because I can't remember offhand if you can embed an if-switch into the DATEADD function.

    First, derive 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: Using Access to put data into SQL Server

    Short version: You're going to have to subform the ever loving daylights out of your form. The reason is hierarchal controls in Access need to be subformed or programmed,...


    - 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?

    Sean Lange (8/31/2012)


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    Jo Pattyn (8/29/2012)


    How to inform developers that there are still slow/congested networks out...


    - 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: SSRS 2005 Report Executions times

    Typically you don't. You can add a table hint for experimentation using WITH INDEX(1) (similar to adding with NOLOCK) and see if that cures the actual problem. Don't...


    - 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: Increment varchar primary key? or convert varchar primary key to seeded integer

    These quotes are slightly re-arranged for pertinance and organization, so please bear with me.

    Isaac Vallee (8/30/2012)


    I have a table with a varchar(10) primary key. This value is determined and input...


    - 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?

    Hey guys, need a hand with a deadlock issue. Short version: Heap table with no indexing and a single default constraint causing IX - X table level lock conflicts...


    - 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: Deadlock investigation, help!

    Yeah, sorry I'm not directly helping here. Your assumptions and reading of the graph are accurate. The queries are both conflicting on an IX - X conversion for...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Odd behaviour from computed columns in a left outer join

    Kevin Dahl (8/30/2012)


    Hey Craig,

    I'm not sure I could post them in a useful format, if you're looking to try and re-create the actual problem. There ends up being quite 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: SSRS 2005 Report Executions times

    It sounds like the execution plan is changing heavily between a local call and the SSRS call. Either that or data transfer on the network is amazingly slow between...


    - 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: Deadlock investigation, help!

    The Intent Exclusive locks trying to convert to exclusive aren't your direct issue here. They'll attempt to escalate at 5000 rows but it's not required, it's just an optimization...


    - 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: Issue with Report Model on Join Two Tables from Different DB

    I don't have a solution for you but an easy workaround is to create a view in one of the databases that is basically a 'passthrough' to the table in...


    - 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: Querying EAV data

    Lokesh Vij (8/30/2012)


    What according to you would be the best way to query data. Every time I increase one attribute in my select clause, I need to add a join...


    - 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: JOb failed in SQL server 2005

    Alter Table Alter Column your identity column to BIGINT, you've got more than 2 billion entries !!!


    - 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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