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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jan Van der Eecken (10/5/2009)


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    jcrawf02 (10/5/2009)


    My project this weekend has been Artillery Fungus[/url], unfortunately. I'm trying the mouthwash/toothpaste solution on that link later tonight or tomorrow, depends when it...

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  • RE: Setting to Single User only

    "Starting to think 'too' business" - it happens. 🙂

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  • RE: SUM Case statement where COUNT inside CASE statement

    Go with the temp table idea. It's the best option.

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  • RE: Setting to Single User only

    That makes more sense now.

    The only thing I can think of is adding a VBA "on startup" script to the Access file which would log that someone is using it....

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  • RE: Setting to Single User only

    The only methods I can think of would be unstable and untrustworthy.

    Any reason to not have multiple Access files and bypass whatever issue you're running into?

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  • RE: How to read .mdf file of database currently in use

    Is there some particular reason to not have SQL back up the database? I'm sure there are ways to back up the file directly, but they're all going to...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jcrawf02 (10/5/2009)


    My project this weekend has been Artillery Fungus[/url], unfortunately. I'm trying the mouthwash/toothpaste solution on that link later tonight or tomorrow, depends when it rains. Spent time this weekend...

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  • RE: How to delete duplicated rows and keep just one?

    dsdeming (10/5/2009)


    For what it's worth, you can accomplish the same thing with an outer join and an aggreaget function:

    CREATE TABLE #Test(ID int IDENTITY(1,1), FirstName varchar(10), LastName varchar(10), Email varchar(10))

    INSERT INTO...

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  • RE: How to delete duplicated rows and keep just one?

    Here's how I recommend doing deduping in SQL 2005/2008:

    ;with CTE (Row) as

    (select row_number() over (partition by FirstName, LastName, Email order by ID)

    from dbo.PERSONS)

    delete from CTE

    where Row > 1;

    Here's a performance...

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  • RE: Support The Boss

    I've had bosses I would back up completely and support enthusiastically, and bosses I'd abandon at the slightest opportunity. Fortunately, more of the first than the second.

    I always think...

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  • RE: DBAs and the Fear of Maintenance Plans

    I've used maintenance plans as a stopgap. Get something in place that backs up databases on regular basis and a few other tasks, while building the necessary scripts and...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jan Van der Eecken (10/2/2009)


    Is this fair use of the forums by the way?

    Steve's reply to another copy of the post is here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic780179-61-1.aspx

    I don't have a problem with it....

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  • RE: substring NOT working

    Francis Yee-483501 (10/2/2009)


    First, THANK YOU a lot guys for the extreme support.

    The code I quoted is just one tenth of the original program.

    My purpose is very straight forward and the...

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  • RE: Moving table from one filegroup to another filegroup

    When you create an index, you can specify which filegroup to create it in. If you create the clustered index in a certain filegroup, then that's the table. ...

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  • RE: Connect to sql server

    When Management Studio asks you which server to connect to, type in the IP address, add the correct credentials, and see if it'll connect.

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