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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (1/18/2012)


    In case anyone is interested, the text of SOPA (the House bill) can be found here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3261ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr3261ih.pdf

    The text of PIPA (the Senate bill) can be found here:

    http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s968/text

    And the...

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  • RE: Means to export a varbinary(max) column from the database to disk

    What happens if you have a cursor step through the rows in sys_mail tables that you need, and call sp_send_dbmail using the values from that table?

    I've done that before, but...

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  • RE: Converting unprintible characters in derived column task

    By unprintable characters, do you mean extended character set? Like Chinese "letters" and that kind of thing? Or do you mean ASCII instruction characters, like the tab-left character?

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  • RE: BYOD

    Eric M Russell (1/18/2012)


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    fahey.jonathan (1/18/2012)


    In most professions, the "tools" do not become obsolete in two years. The screwdriver I made 25 years ago still works...

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  • RE: A Tough One, At Least For Me

    Edit: Misread what fahey was trying to do. Never mind.

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  • RE: Image type through variable

    Are you using SQL 2000 or something later (forum is 2005, but I don't like to assume on that)?

    In SQL 2005 and later, you should Varbinary(max) instead of Image as...

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  • RE: about the site itself

    This is about the 10th time the idea of rep on this site has been discussed since I've been here, and I still don't see a valid "solution". Nor...

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  • RE: Wrapper to run stored procedure many times

    Cadavre (1/18/2012)


    adrian.facio (1/18/2012)


    Did you tried it before your change??

    Admittedly, the answer to that is "no".

    However IMO, to avoid ambiguity, whether or not your method works is irrelevant. ...

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  • RE: BYOD

    Revenant (1/18/2012)


    GSquared (1/18/2012)


    . . . After all, SSMS without a computer, is just a bunch of reflective patterns on a mylar-coating on a plastic disk.

    No, it is a 25-characted combination...

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  • RE: Identity Out of Step

    Any reason to still be using @@Identity instead of an Output clause?

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  • RE: Performance Issue In DB

    TravisDBA (1/18/2012)


    Run a SQL Profiler for about a half hour to hour on just that database id, and sort by duration descending and save the trace file (.trc). That will...

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  • RE: BYOD

    Eric M Russell (1/18/2012)


    fahey.jonathan (1/18/2012)


    In most professions, the "tools" do not become obsolete in two years. The screwdriver I made 25 years ago still works in every flathead screw...

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  • RE: BYOD

    fahey.jonathan (1/18/2012)


    In most professions, the "tools" do not become obsolete in two years. The screwdriver I made 25 years ago still works in every flathead screw in my house....

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  • RE: A Tough One, At Least For Me

    On the original question, definitely go with an Output clause.

    If you insert all the companies at one go, and use Output Into to dump the names and their IDs into...

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  • RE: A Tough One, At Least For Me

    fahey.jonathan (1/18/2012)


    The OUTPUT clause is going to work only with the MERGE statement.

    Huh???

    Output works with any of the data modification actions. Not just Merge.

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