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  • RE: What is the best way to update table data from a remote table?

    john.bush (8/6/2012)


    Hi Craig,

    I checked everything you mentioned and have got positive results. I seem to have left the RPC and RPC Out at defaults (False). What does RPC stand...


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  • RE: View Help

    asm1212 (8/6/2012)


    Yeah no offense but my view is much larger than that, and i was trying to dumb it down...

    Which is why you got a simplified answer.

    I have tried using...


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  • RE: What is the best way to update table data from a remote table?

    john.bush (8/6/2012)


    Good Afternoon, I am relatively new to SQL Server 2008 and I am attempting to create a query. What I need is to access data from a SQL...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: How to read data in a pdf file in SSIS

    A question. Are you trying to store the file, or the information IN the file for full-text indexing?

    If you're just trying to store the file, you want VARBINARY(MAX). ...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Is it me or is it them? :-)

    miapjp (8/6/2012)


    Hey GSquared (or anyone who knows the answer) - I have a question about the last line in your response. Do you mean I could get the wrong...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I'd be willing to assist on QotD validations, but my free time has constrained signficantly lately so I certainly couldn't guarantee timeliness (ie: under two weeks)


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: modify view

    You'll want to run sp_updateview after you're done changing the underlying schema. If the view(s) are schemabound you'll have to drop and recreate them after you've made your modifications.


    - 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: How can I attract Senior Database Administrator candidates?

    bsclyde (8/2/2012)


    We don't need a SQL god or any other type of omnipotent, super mutant, cyborg, uber-DBA. We'd take one, but we don't need one.:-D We also 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: Better Bosses Needed

    I stayed away from this thread for a bit because it hits a few demons in my career. I've also had a few blessings.

    One of my managers once told...


    - 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: count the number of rows that select query is going to select

    Nope.

    The best you can do is grab an estimated execution plan and that'll attempt to determine it off statistics, but really... nope.

    You COULD do a SELECT COUNT(*) AS cnt FROM...


    - 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: trying to add alias for value generated by Where clause

    polkadot (8/2/2012)


    How would you build rCTE when the column against which recursion is done is a SMALLDATETIME column and not SMALLINT?

    Do I need to first order the dates...


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  • RE: Select from stored proc for many records where single record ID being passed in

    I'll second (third?) the delimited string splitter technique and use an inline table function for a single parameter set.

    XML is an excellent alternative in 2k5 for when you have pairs...


    - 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: Script to convert MS Access queries to T-SQL

    I've personally never ran into anything that can convert Access DAO.SQL to T-SQL effectively. There's just enough differences and assumptions in the two that they don't play nice directly...


    - 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: T-SQL Advice on Update Statement Needed

    Michael Valentine Jones (8/2/2012)


    I had a query that was comparing hundreds of columns to see if they were different, and it was taking forever to run until I switched it...


    - 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: How can I attract Senior Database Administrator candidates?

    I can't see the item in discussion, unfortunately, because that site is blocked by websense.

    However, if I can toot my own horn and following along with the discussion and your...


    - 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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