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  • RE: Data Vision

    Do we not do that already to at least some rudimentary level?

    For example, we have Burn Charts in Scrum that can be calculated automatically and generate emails upon reaching of...

  • RE: Open Excel Error Using PowerShell in SQL Server Agent Job

    Perhaps not but as you have moved to calling the 32 bit executor I would prove each step to confirm that it is working. Tackling it in one go is...

  • RE: Open Excel Error Using PowerShell in SQL Server Agent Job

    Have you tried to change the PowerShell script to a simpler one (that creates an empty file) to demonstrate that it isn't PowerShell per se that is the problem?

  • RE: Open Excel Error Using PowerShell in SQL Server Agent Job

    I guess it really depends upon what Step 1 is. Have you tried to execute Step 1 outside of SQL Server Agent? What is it?

  • RE: No R2

    Suddenly the whole VPN access to locally hosted apps almost, almost, disappears.

  • RE: No R2

    chrisn-585491 (6/11/2013)


    I can see a scenario where organizations turn to cloud based services to host their e-commerce database or quickly spin up some one-off analytical solution requested by management.

    That's about...

  • RE: The Watson Service

    Eric M Russell (6/11/2013)


    How long before Microsoft has a similar service that might troubleshoot issues with products, perhaps even working with developers to find bugs and workarounds. I'd imagine that...

  • RE: Open Excel Error Using PowerShell in SQL Server Agent Job

    I know that you need to run SSIS in 32-bit mode if you are using Excel to ensure that the ODBC (Jet) engine it uses (which is 32-bit) runs correctly....

  • RE: The Watson Service

    I can't speak for the rest of the world, and can barely do it for the UK, but here a lot of our call centres and sales cold calling centres...

  • RE: No R2

    I think that what we will see is that a lot of in-house applications as well as products will find themselves hosted and perhaps now the technological framework is coming...

  • RE: No R2

    jfogel (6/10/2013)


    Maybe Windows 95 was a good name for a product at the time but other than that I'm no fan of using a year as part of a name....

  • RE: The Importance of Reading Comments

    For me the following are the salient points for the reader:

    - One should understand what every part of a code example is doing before using it.

    - Test in a sandboxed...

  • RE: Quickly Copy Data

    Robert.Sterbal (6/6/2013)


    My experience with tools that have to last a long time, and I've been compressing files for 20+ years is that open source projects offer substantial benefits for use...

  • RE: Quickly Copy Data

    Robert.Sterbal (6/6/2013)


    ....so the more open the tool the less likely you will run into an unnecessary gotcha.

    What was that? Flame on? Seriously: I believe it totally depends on the tool...

  • RE: Quickly Copy Data

    Thanks. If for no other reason than the extremely useful general technical advise on copying large files.

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