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  • RE: Non-Clustered, Composite Primary Key

    Brandie Tarvin (7/23/2014)


    Not to provoke debate (but I'm gonna anyway @=), I generally use surrogate Identity columns as singular, non-composite PKs because if I used natural composite keys, I'd be...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    crookj (7/25/2014)


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    abrasive

    rude

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    oil

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    Oh man, you're gonna make me say "KY".

    Peanut butter?

    Banana

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    Dosh

  • RE: Sub Query

    I appear to have clicked an answer that I was sure I didn't click. I guess that didn't happen, so it ust have been finger trouble. I agree...

  • RE: Exit Stage Right

    I think that this is a pretty good question. But asking which answer is "most correct" is asking for a judgement call, rather than just for knowledge of a...

  • RE: Display Duplicates

    Brandie Tarvin (7/23/2014)


    ChrisM@Work (7/23/2014)


    At a guess, you have 741 duplicated rows, 73 triplicated, and 1 quadruplicated.

    Give the man a cookie for doing the actual math work! 😀

    No, he didn't do...

  • RE: DevOps

    I rather agree with Patrick's comment above - but I read the rubbish and got steadily more appalled as I went through it. A (Python) Programmer is apparently the...

  • RE: Non-Clustered, Composite Primary Key

    Brandie Tarvin (7/23/2014)


    Grant Fritchey (7/23/2014)


    Brandie Tarvin (7/23/2014)


    There are people who will disagree with me on this, but I have found adding an IDENTITY (1,1) column to the table and adding...

  • RE: Collation, Unicode & Joins

    Good question (but a pity about the unwanted editing).

    I almost fell for the collation error on skim reading the code, but on looking mor carefully because that seemed too easy...

  • RE: Recovery Interval

    Good question.

    My brain's not working tonight - I picked one option and forgot to pick a second. It must be the red wine.

  • RE: Non Temp Temp Tables

    Bad question. The answer depends on what privileges you are logged in with. Telling people the correct answer is that you can do this is encouraging them to...

  • RE: The Great Escape

    pankaja_us (7/21/2014)


    The second query

    select *

    from testdata

    where productname like searchpattern escape EscapeClause

    is returning to me just one row... I tested the whole code block in the question... care...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Eirikur Eiriksson (7/18/2014)


    Lynn Pettis (7/18/2014)


    Why do I feel that WC is heading down a deep dark hole??

    Must admit that I fear the same, almost like there is no comprehention what...

  • RE: Encrypt SSN Example (TDE)

    Welsh Corgi (7/18/2014)


    s soon as I open The key it fails in SSIS but it works inSSMS?

    You haven't said what fails in SSIS nor what works in SSMS. So...

  • RE: Encrypt SSN Example (TDE)

    Welsh Corgi (7/18/2014)


    It was not but is now returning null values from SSMS. I did was change the encryption key.

    If you change the key you can't decrypt information that was...

  • RE: Encrypt SSN Example (TDE)

    Welsh Corgi (7/18/2014)


    I'm having a weird problem.

    I do not have it in one AS400 Library within SSIS but when I go to another I get an error that the column...

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