prakashr.r7 (7/30/2013)

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Eric M Russell (7/26/2013)

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I wouldn't even attempt to use SSIS to make daily copies of tables with schemas that can change daily.

First, you can query INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS to determine if...

Many client access libraries (ADO.NET and LINQ) support CRUD operations for XML. Also, starting with Windows 2008 / Vista, the NTFS file system supports transactional writes. So, an XML document...

SQL Guy 1 (7/26/2013)

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Employee or consultant, it's not such important how I am called. But here is the situation, and I'll try to explain it as clear as possible....

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I wouldn't even attempt to use SSIS to make daily copies of tables with schemas that can change daily.

First, you can query INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS to determine if there have been any...

My Lenovo laptop came bundled with something called VeriFace, which can substitute facial recognition for login password. It also appears to encrypt files and folders using using facial recognition. However,...

We also can't assume that DateOfBirth isn't nullable.

SELECT TOP 1 *

FROM MyTable

WHERE DateOfBirth is not null

ORDER BY DateOfBirth DESC

Explain what it means to "get the person"; do you want to return the entire person row, just the person's ID, etc. ?

Dird (7/25/2013)

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Why does it tend to fail (besides login issues) a lot? What kind of number is "a lot" of servers?

Although currently I'm just looping through 11 servers and doing...

Since your code needs to run against 2000 - 2008, perhaps...

I personally havn't had a need to do it, but since you have the inspiration, here is a link to get you started.

Mapping SQL Server 2000 System Tables to SQL...

Lowell (7/25/2013)

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another possibility is to create the user with the "right" limited permissions, with the same password as 'sa' currently;

that should be easy to do , since everyone is logging...

Luis Cazares (7/25/2013)

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As far as I know, those dependencies are only within the database. If there...

This situation smells like Entity Framework. I'll bet it's developers telling management they need sysadmin membership in production or else the application won't work.

Sean Lange (7/25/2013)

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Sounds like you guys have kind of painted yourselves into a corner. There is a way to do this but it is not exactly best practice. Basically what...