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  • RE: Problem with getting SSIS package to successfully execute. Looking for stop-gap solution allowing user to update a table column w/ flat file data. Advice needed.

    It could be SQL server version related, but if you are running it from your local machine, it shouldn't much matter from my experience.  I had an SSIS 2016 package...

    The above is all just my opinion on what you should do. 
    As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it.  Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
    I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

  • RE: Problem with getting SSIS package to successfully execute. Looking for stop-gap solution allowing user to update a table column w/ flat file data. Advice needed.

    Looking at the error and the naming of things in there, I'm guessing you are missing sharepoint connectors on your system.

    The reason I think this:
    1 - you...

    The above is all just my opinion on what you should do. 
    As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it.  Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
    I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

  • RE: Changing default Language for a database - Interesting

    As a thought, did you change the compatability of the database after upgrading?  

    I tried looking up that SP on bing hoping to find something related to it (which...

    The above is all just my opinion on what you should do. 
    As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it.  Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
    I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden - Wednesday, June 28, 2017 6:55 AM

    Heh...  what's the last cursor you wrote and what did it do?

    I am...

    The above is all just my opinion on what you should do. 
    As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it.  Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
    I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

  • RE: Create Multiple SSRS Subscriptions for a Parameterised SSRS Report - Programmatically / Dynamically / Quickly

    I agree with Sue on this one (which is usually the case); report subscriptions are stored in the database not the report.  Storing them in the report would require having...

    The above is all just my opinion on what you should do. 
    As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it.  Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
    I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

  • RE: Got a weird one for ya....

    Glad we could help (although I think the majority of the thanks goes to Gail on this one).  She asked for all of the information AND she found it being...

    The above is all just my opinion on what you should do. 
    As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it.  Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
    I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

  • RE: Got a weird one for ya....

    Quick eyeballing of that, to me it looks like it is more likely:

    The above is all just my opinion on what you should do. 
    As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it.  Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
    I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

  • RE: Got a weird one for ya....

    I am assuming based on the names that:
    dummy_CustNameXRef_Delete
    gets called on delete and:
    ADG_CustNameXRef_Add
    gets called on insert?

    Also, unless I am reading those SP's incorrectly (which...

    The above is all just my opinion on what you should do. 
    As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it.  Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
    I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

  • RE: Got a weird one for ya....

    You said you posted 2 triggers, but those are procedures.
    Do the triggers call those procedures?

    The above is all just my opinion on what you should do. 
    As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it.  Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
    I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

  • RE: Change SQL Server IP

    I personally wouldn't recommend adding the name to the hosts file.  Your DNS should handle that no problem.
    As for changing the IP that SQL listens on, I'm not sure...

    The above is all just my opinion on what you should do. 
    As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it.  Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
    I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

  • RE: SQL server Analysis services getting stopped

    That screenshot is a little hard to read, but if I am reading it correctly, you are using SQL 11 (ie 2012).
    What is the error right below the one...

    The above is all just my opinion on what you should do. 
    As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it.  Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
    I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

  • RE: Updating data source for SSRS 2016 no longer allowing

    I have seen this happen if I am impatient too.  Sometimes when I load up a data source, everything starts out greyed out and if I wait about 20-30 seconds...

    The above is all just my opinion on what you should do. 
    As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it.  Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
    I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

  • RE: Report queque

    Sue_H - Thursday, June 22, 2017 11:16 AM

    bmg002 - Thursday, June 22, 2017 10:45 AM

    The above is all just my opinion on what you should do. 
    As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it.  Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
    I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

  • RE: SSRS reporting services processing large data

    Another thing to look at would be filtering those results.  Is a report with 100K to 500K rows actually useful in any manner?  I am not asking if the data...

    The above is all just my opinion on what you should do. 
    As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it.  Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
    I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

  • RE: Report queque

    Sue_H - Thursday, June 22, 2017 10:26 AM

    That function is a cool little thing but it probably should have been written...

    The above is all just my opinion on what you should do. 
    As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it.  Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
    I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

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