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  • RE: Be Reasonabl

    Funny! An editorial about being reasonable about rules, and the title violates the rules (spelling). 😛

    Now that I've finished making fun of Steve, I guess I wreely nede to...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (7/21/2011)


    I'm curious. How many people subscribe to a job service (or keep in touch with job sites / recruiters) because they're currently looking?

    Or do you just keep in...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    hor_netuk (7/21/2011)


    I know times are hard, but a job alert email subscription delivered me the attached vacancy today. For the record, I won't be applying. 😛

    Hornet

    Steve Jobs gets paid...

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  • RE: Enter the file storage type of field SourceID [char] when using xp_cmdshell

    Nah. Same problem, just step two on it.

    The SSIS FTP object uses a file connection to manage what it uploads. In the file connection, make the connection string...

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  • RE: Freetext query to get surrounding portion of text

    Yeah, I've always thought FTS was pretty crippled because you can't materialize the matching string from it.

    It would be MUCH more useful if you could query a function from the...

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  • RE: Query Question

    It's not a recursive query, it's what's called a "correlated subquery". Correlated subqueries reference a value in the outer query.

    The subquery tests if a value exists that matches the...

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  • RE: Should I upgrade to 2008 for the MERGE option?

    I have to agree that Merge, by itself, isn't a good reason to spend money on an upgrade.

    It's one of many good reasons to upgrade, but it's low on the...

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  • RE: CHARINDEX of varbinary column

    geo123abram (7/20/2011)


    GSquared (7/19/2011)


    Do you mean something like this?

    DECLARE

    @VB VARBINARY(100) = CAST('This Is My String' AS VARBINARY(100)),

    @Sub VARBINARY(100) = CAST('Is' AS VARBINARY(100));

    SELECT CHARINDEX(@Sub, @VB);

    Actually, no....

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  • RE: Dynamic SQL erroring when run using EXEC()

    It's not giving you a failed login error, but a login timeout error. That usually means the service isn't available for the connection type you're using.

    Are you connecting via...

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  • RE: Error encountered during creation of databases: CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 5(Access is denied.)

    sqlapprentice (7/20/2011)


    Solution found!

    It turned out for mount points there are two 'security' tabs that you can set up access rights for different accounts.

    Please see attachment "old_security_tabl.jpg": the first 'security' tab...

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  • RE: Outsourced = Laid Off?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/19/2011)


    GSquared (7/19/2011)


    Freddie-304292 (7/19/2011)


    I think it's a bit unfair to say that people out of work for a year are bad DBAs. They may be...

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  • RE: Nested loop changes to Hash Join for same query

    Different queries, different plans. Simple as that.

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  • RE: Enter the file storage type of field SourceID [char] when using xp_cmdshell

    Since you can create an SSIS package by running through the Export Wizard, I really can't say it's complex or difficult to build.

    Building a text file export by going into...

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  • RE: Freetext query to get surrounding portion of text

    First part, on FTS on a binary file, there's an example of it here: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/architecture/sqlfulltextindexing.aspx

    The materialization is more complex, but is mostly just string manipulation. For example, CharIndex will...

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  • RE: Enter the file storage type of field SourceID [char] when using xp_cmdshell

    I use SSIS for that kind of thing.

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