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  • RE: Something you could never do in sql server

    Restricted Session and Single-User aren't the same thing. Single-User just blocks anyone else from using the database at the same time. Doesn't restrict the number of transactions, et...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    L' Eomot Inversé (11/9/2011)


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    L' Eomot Inversé (11/8/2011)


    The next bad normalisation myth is that normalisation always increases the amount of storage required - a database in 3NF will require...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (11/8/2011)


    How can BCNF be sensibly discussed if the earlier normal forms aren't known?

    Same way you can teach Algebra without learning Arithmetic first. You just ... uh ... well...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/8/2011)


    I'm sure you'll pass me. I am down to about 150 posts a month, too busy with other stuff and most questions are being...

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  • RE: Understand this SQL Script

    It's iterating through weeks. 7 doesn't indicate June (not sure why it would, but it's commented that way), it's a multiple of a number of days based on the...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    L' Eomot Inversé (11/8/2011)


    Roy Ernest (11/8/2011)


    Hey everyone, I am hijacking the thread with an "Off Topic"

    I am planning on a presentation for my user group "DBA MythBusters" (Courtesy Paul Randal)...

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  • RE: What else have you done?

    jshahan (11/8/2011)


    I think there is substance in the earlier post about musicians having an apptitude for IT and vice versa. Maybe the primary attribute is that to be good at...

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  • RE: SQL conundrum

    Finding overlap is easy.

    If the AvailableTo is later than the AppointmentStart, and the AvailableFrom is earlier than the AppointmentEnd, then they have an overlap. That's a simple join condition.

    What...

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  • RE: SQL conundrum

    SQL Kiwi (11/8/2011)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (11/8/2011)


    Not in the sense of over-booking partial flight legs like this system does

    Fair enough. Booking part of a flight is an intriguing idea though - parachutes...

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  • RE: Is a dynamic IN statement possible?

    If you can use them, Table Valued Parameters (TVPs) are a new feature in SQL 2008 which do this very, very well. It's basically what Dixie Flatline suggested, but...

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  • RE: Error when attempting to Dynamic set the Connection String to an Excel OLE DB DEstination Connection

    I usually go to properties of the connection, click on the "..." button next to Expressions, select Connection String from the drop-down, build the expression.

    I'm assuming you've tried that already,...

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  • RE: Error when attempting to Dynamic set the Connection String to an Excel OLE DB DEstination Connection

    I checked, and the connection string for xlsm files needs to be "Excel 12.0 Macro". Try that.

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  • RE: OpenDataSource using ACE.OLEDB 12.00 won't work

    Have you made sure you have that connection driver installed?

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  • RE: Error when attempting to Dynamic set the Connection String to an Excel OLE DB DEstination Connection

    Try this format for the connection string:

    Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=C:\SSIS\TXQuoteActivity\TXQuoteActivity.xlsm;Extended Properties="Excel 12.0 Xml;HDR=YES";

    (You have the file extension as "xlsm". I'm used to "xlsx". Is that a typo, or is the...

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  • RE: Error when attempting to Dynamic set the Connection String to an Excel OLE DB DEstination Connection

    Is the connection string blank/incomplete at validation-time, and populated by a variable at runtime?

    If so, have you set Delayed Validation on the package?

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