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  • RE: Less QA?

    S Hodkinson - Saturday, May 13, 2017 1:37 AM

    Gosh this seems terribly relevant after yesterday's attack

    Indeed.

    How One Simple Trick Just Put Out...

  • RE: Cracking the SQL Code

    Policies can destroy creative thought if applied too mechanically. In a complex system, such as a database, best-practices so often blur into 'it depends'.


    What set of policies are...

  • RE: What do you do when you have a repetitive task to do?

    manie - Friday, May 12, 2017 1:02 AM

    I find that Excel and Notepad++ is invaluable tools for a developer. I have to...

  • RE: What do you do when you have a repetitive task to do?

    It's a lot easier to automate a process when it's been well defined (ie: the functional requirements don't change) and when the underlying physical environment is stable (ie: you don't...

  • RE: Translating Queries

    Mike Scalise - Wednesday, May 10, 2017 9:17 AM

    Thanks, everyone, for the replies. This wouldn't be a headache for us database developers...

  • RE: SQL books and reference materials

    You're posting in a SQL Server 2008 forum. A lot has changed in the area of availability, replication, and disaster recovery features between versions 2012-2014-2016. Confirm that you're production environment...

  • RE: Translating Queries

    As the DBA, about the only influence you have this situation (poorly constructed SQL coming from an application) is to insure that both [some_table].[some_id] and [some_other_table].[some_other_id] are indexed. If investigation...

  • RE: Would You Still Love Linux If Windows Was Free?

    loyd.gravitt - Tuesday, May 9, 2017 8:48 AM

    TomThomson - Tuesday, May 9, 2017 3:55 AM

  • RE: ETL Processes and SOX

    Phil Parkin - Tuesday, May 9, 2017 8:58 AM

    Eric M Russell - Tuesday, May 9, 2017 8:46...

  • 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)

  • RE: ETL Processes and SOX

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

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

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