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  • RE: Looking for resources on Using Null values in a Foreign Key

    Yeah. The most likely explanation is that the person/people who built it don't understand what they're doing. Very true.

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  • RE: Canadian Postal Code Format

    One way would be to get a full list of Canadian postal codes and use that. That's a bit of overkill, though.

    Canadian postal codes are formatted with three characters,...

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  • RE: Using semi-colon in t-sql

    David Portas (1/14/2009)


    This is a bit of a mess. In SQL Server 2000 semicolons were optional or in a few cases actually not allowed at the end of statements. In...

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  • RE: Help Please: Need to assign a sequence number for each group

    You're welcome.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (1/14/2009)


    Hey Gail,

    I see you suggested turning the safeties off to my bestest friend. Holy cow! Triggers calling unsafe CLR code. That ought to be entertaining. Some consultant somewhere...

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  • RE: Looking for resources on Using Null values in a Foreign Key

    Null in an FK value just means it doesn't have a parent relationship. Most of the time, that doesn't make sense, but sometimes it does. It depends on...

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  • RE: Excluding invalid dates from query

    Have you tried looking at the data returned by the derived table to see if it's got any out-of-range dates?

    If that doesn't help, try inserting into a temp table, then...

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

    I've done that kind of thing before, and I usually use checks like IsDate or IsNumeric to validate the data before I try to run an insert on it.

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  • RE: Can't connect to SSIS

    I'm confused. I've been using SSIS since 2005, but I don't think I've ever "logged in" to SSIS. I've opened Business Intelligence Dev Studio (BIDS) to build/debug/refactor SSIS...

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  • RE: Newbie T-Sql Question

    You can use Output Parameters on stored procedures. Those will return a value to the proc that calls a proc.

    They look like this:

    create proc dbo.MyProc (

    @OutputParam int output)

    as

    select @OutputParam...

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  • RE: Help Please: Need to assign a sequence number for each group

    There's the Row_Number() function. Have you looked into using that?

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  • RE: Need to query the day before for a range of dates.

    DC (1/14/2009)


    The only issue with doing it this way is that I need to be able to input different dates from a gui as oppose to hard coding a Start...

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  • RE: Join Query Where Problem

    Something that strikes me as possibly erroneous in this query is that it has a Left Join, but there's a Where clause on the second table of the join. ...

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  • RE: Approving Changes

    Yep.

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  • RE: Can't connect to SSIS

    I guess I don't understand what you mean about not being able to connect to SSIS from an instance of SQL Server in Management Studio. What aren't they able...

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