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  • RE: Update with except conditon

    Using <= in that one will be the opposite of what you want. Use Drew's last example. No reason to overcomplicate this.

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  • RE: How to find errors for Data Driven Subscription?

    Have you checked things like the error log?

    SSRS logs errors to a file in the installation directory. It also has, if I remember correctly, an execution log in the...

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  • RE: Update with except conditon

    I must also be missing something. What's wrong with the solution you already posted?

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  • RE: SQL 2005 SP2 Database Mirroring

    Usually, the application needs to have that built into the data access layer (DAL). It either checks a heartbeat for the primary and, failing a response on that, changes...

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  • RE: Pass Result of Stored Procedure to SSIS Variable

    If you're using "SELECT @Trigger", that's a result-set, not an output parameter. Change to a simple result set, and map it in the options.

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  • RE: SQL Database Coding Standards?

    What kind of standards?

    Standard coding?

    Layout and readability standards?

    Best-performance standards?

    ANSI standards?

    Coding standards are on MSDN (and in Books Online). These often include notes on best/worst use.

    Layout and readability standards depend...

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  • RE: Adding time

    Multiply the hours duration by 3600, the minutes duration by 60. Total those up with the seconds, and you have a total seconds of duration. Even easier, skip...

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  • RE: XML Parse help

    Change SINGLE_BLOB to SINGLE_CLOB. BLOB is for "Binary Large OBject", CLOB is for "Character Large OBject". Using the BLOB version makes SQL Server assume it's binary data, which...

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  • RE: Truth and Demos

    When I used to be in sales and marketing, I made sure to include drawbacks, costs, et al, in the negotiations. Wasn't selling software, but it was still sales...

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  • RE: Truth and Demos

    iPolvo (1/4/2012)


    paul s-306273 (1/4/2012)


    In my experience all sales staff over exaggerate the merits of the software that they are trying to sell you. Only the non-IT people are easily duped....

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  • RE: XQuery vs. OPENXML

    This should be a new post, not an addition to a post from 2007 on a somewhat different subject. But, to answer your question, no, that's not what that...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (1/4/2012)


    On a slightly different note, I was looking into some linked server issues and found a comment in this Microsoft article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188279.aspx that MS doesn't recommend the use...

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  • RE: Nested Set Optimization Fun and Sunshine

    Cool.

    Is it anything you can post here?

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  • RE: Voluntary Constraint?

    sqlvogel (1/4/2012)


    From a SQL developer's perspective it is tempting to assume that data integrity should always be enforced by the database. Unfortunately SQL Server (like most SQL DBMSs) is only...

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  • RE: Voluntary Constraint?

    I've never yet seen an application correctly validate all the data being fed in through it. Most? Sure. All? No way.

    Just ran into a situation where...

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