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  • RE: Performance / Timing issue

    Please don't double-post.

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  • RE: Placing a Value on Data

    Andy Lennon (8/5/2009)


    GSquared (8/5/2009)


    You also have to assess the cost of protecting it.

    If your company loses an average of one laptop per year, and spends an extra $100k per year...

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  • RE: Simple query?!

    Here's what I could come up with:

    create table #T (

    ID int primary key,

    NR int,

    Txt char(2),

    Val1 char(1));

    insert into #T (ID, NR, Txt, Val1)

    select 1 ,1 ,'aa' ,'A' union all

    select 2 ,1...

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  • RE: Is there a SQL Server Reporting Services 2008?

    If you want SSRS 2008, you need SQL 2008.

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  • RE: Suggest a good for SSAS for beginners

    MSDN has online tutorials that are a good place to start.

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  • RE: Placing a Value on Data

    You also have to assess the cost of protecting it.

    If your company loses an average of one laptop per year, and spends an extra $100k per year on encrypting hard...

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  • RE: How to send excel file after data flow via send mail task

    I wonder if it's a problem with SSIS holding a lock on the file. Have you tried making the e-mail into a second step in the job, instead of...

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  • RE: How did good DBAs become good DBAs

    SQL Iron Chef (8/4/2009)


    GSquared (8/4/2009)


    It sounds like you've got a good start on it.

    To keep going, just keep one thing in mind: You'll get out of it what you put...

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  • RE: SP_PREPEXEC and SP_UNPREPARE blocking

    I would need to know what the procs are that are blocking each other and what objects they are accessing. Blocks aren't necessarily a bad thing. They just...

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  • RE: SP taking lot of time.

    How long should the proc take to finish?

    I have some that take a few milliseconds, and some that take an hour or more, and none of them are "broken".

    You need...

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  • RE: How did good DBAs become good DBAs

    I realized after I wrote my bit that it could be read as discouraging book-learning, and want to clarify that that's not the point. It takes a ballance of...

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  • RE: Current Running Job Schedule Id or Name

    Ah. I get it now.

    Using the schedule table and the sysjobhistory table, you could probably join them together and get the data that way. It's not going to...

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  • RE: How to send excel file after data flow via send mail task

    How are you sending the e-mail? Are you using DBMail (calling T-SQL) or using the SSIS SendMail task?

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  • RE: Current Running Job Schedule Id or Name

    msdb.dbo.sysjobschedules and msdb.dbo.sysschedules should have what you need.

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  • RE: Unique Id

    You could use an identity column and a calculated column that adds a "U" to the beginning of the number. Will that accomplish what you need?

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