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  • RE: ETL Processes and SOX

    To compare the contents of an Excel sheet to a staging table having a similar structure, you can leverage the OPENROWSET function like so:

    SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET(
    ‘Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0’
    ,‘Excel 12.0;Database=C:\Temp\OrderValues.xlsx;HDR=YES’,results)

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: ETL Processes and SOX

    Phil Parkin - Monday, May 8, 2017 2:06 PM

    Eric M Russell - Monday, May 8, 2017 12:48...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Balloons and Data

    To understand the purpose of TEMPDB, why it can occasionally increase dramatically in size, it help to know what objects are allocated in TEMPDB during peak periods of growth. For...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: ETL Processes and SOX

    Phil Parkin - Monday, May 8, 2017 8:23 AM

    ...
    Among other things, I have been told that we need to come up with...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Three Days and a Notebook

    The ubiquitous presence of devices is a blessing in many ways, but one consequence is that we generally spend less time deep thinking. I mean, twenty years ago those occasions...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Concurrency data access with UPDLOCK and READPAST

    I second the motion to use UPDATE with OUTPUT clause and thus avoid multiple statements and explicit batch transaction.

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: IoT Pros and Cons

    Jason A. Long - Saturday, May 6, 2017 6:47 AM

    As others have noted in previous comments, there are positives and negatives to...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: IoT Pros and Cons

    Jeff Moden - Friday, May 5, 2017 6:39 AM

    I was reading some articles and viewing some YouTubes on "Killer Robots" that many...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Need to reduce pain in my eyes, i.e. to find out which values are different in 2 tables ( out of 155 column(s) , both tables with identical DDL and same # of rows

    Using EXCEPT to isolate those handful of rows that are different, copy the results from both tables into WinMerge to do side by side flat text comparison.

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: IoT Pros and Cons

    I can see the potential for IoT devices in nature conservation and border enforcement. For example, IoT devices placed in remote woodland areas can leverage sound recognition technology to detect...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: IoT Pros and Cons

    Outside the realm Weather and Traffic, most applications of IoT device data havn't seemed all that interesting.

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Sending data between servers in a non conventional way

    A hotel reservation system is certainly an application where you want to have each user accessing a central database. If it's important to have an operational fail-over mode, just in...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: The Secret Password

    Our continuous integration process uses TeamCity / Octopus and our deployments run under the context of a domain based service account. I don't recall the password being persisted anywhere in...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Questions for me to ask during a job interview

    Grant Fritchey - Wednesday, May 3, 2017 8:06 AM

    One additional point, lots of people talk about avoiding the nightmare scenarios of missing...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Questions for me to ask during a job interview

    Jeff Moden - Tuesday, May 2, 2017 1:50 PM

    ...
    My other advise is that you really have to read what's going on if...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

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