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  • RE: Un-Wired

    Kbear (8/29/2008)


    If a company can't survive without anyone for a week or two, it's very bad practice. If you had a family emergency or were very sick (or worse), what...

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  • RE: Workgroup edition with advanced SSIS transformations?????

    Have you tried running the SSIS packages in scheduled jobs? Or are you just running them in Visual Studio?

    The reason I ask is because Visual Studio (and Business Intelligence...

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  • RE: How SQL handles Cursors

    This is a duplicate thread. Please post replies to the copy in General Discussions. Please don't double-post.

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  • RE: Database Design Question

    I would do the benefits hours like an inventory system. Positive entries and negative entries in the same table, with a type and a time stamp. When an...

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  • RE: sql script for countries, states, cities

    Are you looking for a list of every city in the world? I know where you can get a list of all US and Canadian cities (listed by postal...

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  • RE: Foreign Keys - Index creation

    It's a standard, recommended practice to have indexes on foreign keys. It's almost always a good idea.

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  • RE: Multiple references to same foreign table/column

    Many-to-many in a separate table is the way to go on this. I've been through what you're proposing, and it works great for a few weeks, and then you...

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  • RE: Upgrading a Database SQL 2000 to SQL 2005

    I have a script that I use when switching from 2000 to 2005.

    use [database] -- Please remember to fill this in!!

    go

    dbcc UPDATEUSAGE (0) WITH NO_INFOMSGS;

    go

    DBCC CHECKDB (0) with no_infomsgs;

    go

    --...

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  • RE: What order do you do maintenance tasks in?

    I run checkDB before I do backups. Can't see the point to backing up a corrupted file.

    No reason to update stats before/after an index rebuild, since it does that...

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  • RE: Cursor

    I finally had time to test this, and I found something I hadn't noticed before. Your test data (first post) has duplicate IDs and all the dates and times...

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  • RE: Notification not working for operator

    Adam Bean (8/28/2008)


    GSquared (8/27/2008)


    I had a problem similar to this once when I forgot to tell the agent to use the DB Mail profile to send alerts. Is it...

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  • RE: Un-Wired

    I haven't ever taken an actual vacation, but if I did, I would probably remain compulsively connected.

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  • RE: Cursor

    I misunderstood your question about "Row". No, the ID column is the ID from the original table. You'll need to add that to the temp table.

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  • RE: Cursor

    In the first query, change:

    and C1.Row = C3.Row+1

    to:

    and C1.Row = C3.Row-1

    See if that gets you what you need.

    On the second query, I often call the row_number column in a CTE...

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  • RE: Require assistance in Constructing a View

    Trigger could work, but make sure that it will work for multiple rows (the variables in your sample code will break it if multiple rows are added at the same...

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