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  • RE: SSIS and dealing with embedded double quotes

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  • RE: Generate Insert Statements Easily

    I believe the problem with the original statement was how SQL Server handles single. vs. double quotes. In your code, SQL Server was getting confused between the single quote...

  • RE: Storing IPv4 Addresses for Performance

    I'm with HansVE and the others on the TinyInt split of the address. You can index those columns on any table that includes them and then join each of...

  • RE: Anatomy of an Incremental Load

    A very interesting article, which I have bookmarked for future reference. I, too, find SSIS difficult to learn coming from a VB/.NET/T-SQL background. I ended up building an...

  • RE: Execute SQL job through batch file

    Whatever others say, I think this is great. I have always needed the ability to execute a SQL Agent job from a web page in an on-demand fashion, and...

  • RE: Writing Dynamic Stored Procedure

    This is a great, albeit rather standard, technique for conditional WHERE clauses. Performance has never been an issue for me as long as the evaluated condition is efficient (i.e....

  • RE: Calculating Age

    Richard Briggs (3/13/2009)


    Hey Comrades

    how about creating a Peristed Calulated column in your 'person' table.

    The column would call one of the function solutions you have discussed.

    This makes is easier...

  • RE: Calculating Age

    This was perfect timing, Lynn, since I need to produce an Age column in a view for patients in our medical facility. Since I only need to know the...

  • RE: Centralising Reporting Services Stylesheets

    For Irina: The error is coming from the report itself. It cannot find the DLL. Make sure you add the reference in your *report* project to the...

  • RE: Build Great Looking Excel Spreadsheets

    I have been getting column names with the data when copying the grid to Excel all along. I just click the blank square in the upper left corner of...

  • RE: Project Management Management

    I agree with the last sentence in the editorial that project managers need to coordinate issues and then get out of the way. PM is a full time job...

  • RE: The Glue that Binds

    I've always seen the distinct difference between front end/business app coding and database coding. They really are two separate disciplines, and any SQL against relational data can be hard...

  • RE: The Brainstorm Zone

    jim.powers (8/21/2008)

    Hmm... If I don't have the same high-energy and need the occasional break, does that mean I'm getting old? 😛

    Yes 🙂 Which is what has happened to...

  • RE: The Brainstorm Zone

    I call the technique you mentioned a "brain stretch". Sometimes it involves talking with a co-worker about a topic outside work, sometimes it involves going home and letting the...

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