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  • RE: SSIS Problem

    Is it a For Each loop from a list, or a For Each File loop? A For Each File loop will exit gracefully if there are no files. ...

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  • RE: Common Mistakes in T-SQL

    Yep. If you need them done in a particular sequence, you pretty much need to start staging stuff into temp tables.

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  • RE: Query

    Lynn Pettis (1/15/2009)


    You mean sorta like this:

    select

    *

    from

    sys.databases

    where

    name > 'M';

    That would get databases that begin with M, I'm pretty...

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  • RE: Query

    Not sure what you mean. Do you mean all databases on one server where the name starts with N or later in the alphabet?

    It would be easy enough to...

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  • RE: Find which records cannot be converted to a required data type

    First, check for IsNumeric. On the rows that pass that test, check the range with a Between statement.

    Run each test as a series of checks. Rows that pass...

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  • RE: ssis configuration

    One thing you can do is set those as variables, pull data from a table, and set the values of the variables from the values in a table.

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  • RE: Common Mistakes in T-SQL

    ScottPletcher (1/15/2009)


    If SQL Server evaluated left to right, in the above query, it wouldn't have to evaluate the second condition if the first was false (short circuit) because it would...

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  • RE: Common Mistakes in T-SQL

    ScottPletcher (1/15/2009)


    Forgetting that the order that AND clauses are evaluated in at run-time has nothing to do with the order that they are written.

    I thought SQL Server did...

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  • RE: Security Analysis

    All the products I've heard of that do that for you are quite expensive. You can find them by searching in Google/Live/whatever.

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  • RE: Transposing columns into rows - SQL 2000

    There are a couple of different ways. I like:

    select Names.ID, Names.Name, Height, Weight

    from

    (select ID, Value as Name

    from dbo.Table

    where Key = 'Name') Names

    inner join...

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  • RE: What do I have control over, in Reporting Services?

    On the font and the config file, ask the hosting service about those. They're almost certainly in charge of those, unless you have a whole server/virtual machine of your...

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  • RE: Filtering Forms based on PROCS fails in 2003

    I guess I'm not clear on what's happening with your form. You are setting the sort-by property of the form, and it's not sorting? Or something else?

    I built...

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  • RE: SQL2005 distributed transactions

    You'll have to enable distributed transactions (and possibly RPC) on the remote server. Books Online has instructions on both of those things.

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  • RE: CROSS APPLY VERSUS INNER JOIN

    Just to check something on this, I put together this test:

    create table #T1 (

    ID int identity primary key,

    Col1 int);

    insert into #T1 (Col1)

    select number

    from dbo.numbers;

    select *

    from dbo.Numbers

    cross apply

    (select col1

    from #T1

    where col1...

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  • RE: Timesheets for DBA/DBDs

    Jack Corbett (1/15/2009)


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    Loner (1/15/2009)


    10:15 - messing around on SQL Server Central

    10:21 - help desk ticket #35104

    11:30 - lunch

    12:50 - building view dbo.JoesNewReport

    13:07 - emergency help desk ticket #542138

    13:17 -...

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