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  • RE: Any major advantage to using SSDT over BIDS 2008?

    Yep, took a copy, did the one way upgrade and worked on that 😉 after what you said, I wanted to see what happened using a SSDT project and keeping everything...

    "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries."
    — Samuel Johnson
    I wonder, would the great Samuel Johnson have replaced that with "GIYF" now?

  • RE: Any major advantage to using SSDT over BIDS 2008?

    Thanks for the reply Thom.

    In what way(s) is it incompatible? I took a copy of one of my current 2008 BIDS projects, migrated it to SSDT and all...

    "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries."
    — Samuel Johnson
    I wonder, would the great Samuel Johnson have replaced that with "GIYF" now?

  • RE: Fuzzy Search

    I love this idea. I can immediately see a potential use for this that warrants some further research. I work in the legal sector and can see that this might be...

    "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries."
    — Samuel Johnson
    I wonder, would the great Samuel Johnson have replaced that with "GIYF" now?

  • RE: BULK INSERT with format file problems

    Thanks Eirikur

    I had tried using SQLCHAR 0... instead of SQLNCHAR 2...  previously, I didn't get errors but did get 0 rows. ...Thinking back I might have been using a...

    "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries."
    — Samuel Johnson
    I wonder, would the great Samuel Johnson have replaced that with "GIYF" now?

  • RE: BULK INSERT with format file problems

    Eirikur Eiriksson - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 8:04 AM

    Thought it was worth the try.
    😎
    Quick question, why doesn't the staging table...

    "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries."
    — Samuel Johnson
    I wonder, would the great Samuel Johnson have replaced that with "GIYF" now?

  • RE: BULK INSERT with format file problems

    Eirikur Eiriksson - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 7:08 AM

    Quick suggestion, change the "\r\n" to "\n"
    😎

    Nope, sorry. Same message 🙁 I had previously tried...

    "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries."
    — Samuel Johnson
    I wonder, would the great Samuel Johnson have replaced that with "GIYF" now?

  • RE: Detective Stories - Tracking Down the Database's Dependents Part I

    david.gugg - Monday, March 6, 2017 7:58 AM

    I believe another way to do this is with Redgate's free SQL Search tool.  I...

    "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries."
    — Samuel Johnson
    I wonder, would the great Samuel Johnson have replaced that with "GIYF" now?

  • RE: vCenter Server fails to start, Purge and Shrink Vcenter SQL Database

    Anyone else unable to access this article? Tried from two locations:

    ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

    "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries."
    — Samuel Johnson
    I wonder, would the great Samuel Johnson have replaced that with "GIYF" now?

  • RE: PERFORMANCE ISSUE ON SQL SERVER 2008

    Looks like you're using optional parameters, have you tried using OPTION(RECOMPILE)?

    have been caught out with that before:

    http://www.sommarskog.se/dyn-search-2008.html#static

    "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries."
    — Samuel Johnson
    I wonder, would the great Samuel Johnson have replaced that with "GIYF" now?

  • RE: Need Trigger Script

    I have used the method here, with a bit of modification to achieve what I think you are trying to do:

    https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/pop-rivetts-sql-server-faq-no.5-pop-on-the-audit-trail/%5B/url%5D

    Edit: sorry re-read your post and probably not entirely suitable!

    "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries."
    — Samuel Johnson
    I wonder, would the great Samuel Johnson have replaced that with "GIYF" now?

  • RE: Unusual Recursive CTE with non-unique codes

    It's definitely given me food for thought.

    Not that I can change it in this case, but I am doing some reading on the arguments over lookup tables.

    "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries."
    — Samuel Johnson
    I wonder, would the great Samuel Johnson have replaced that with "GIYF" now?

  • RE: Unusual Recursive CTE with non-unique codes

    Thank you Ken. Spot on.

    I used

    INNER JOIN Folders AS f

    ON dcl.cdType = f.cdCode

    AND f.CodeType = 'Folder'

    rather than a LIKE though.

    I had got so close to that...

    "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries."
    — Samuel Johnson
    I wonder, would the great Samuel Johnson have replaced that with "GIYF" now?

  • RE: Unusual Recursive CTE with non-unique codes

    Celko: thanks for your reply. I think I probably didn't explain things as well as I could have.

    First, this has not been developed in house, it is part of an...

    "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries."
    — Samuel Johnson
    I wonder, would the great Samuel Johnson have replaced that with "GIYF" now?

  • RE: when running MDW reports, "A data source instance has not been supplied for the data source 'Snapshot Time'.

    Duran: Have you managed to get any further?

    It looks like you read the same article as me before coming here. Typical Microsoft response "It's broken, we're not going to...

    "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries."
    — Samuel Johnson
    I wonder, would the great Samuel Johnson have replaced that with "GIYF" now?

  • RE: Expression in date parameter that allows nulls

    What a complete idiot I am.

    I previewed this 4 times checking code and spelling etc. When reading it through one final time after posting I found the reason, a silly...

    "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries."
    — Samuel Johnson
    I wonder, would the great Samuel Johnson have replaced that with "GIYF" now?

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