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  • RE: Who Wants to Be Rich?

    chrisn-585491 (8/15/2013)


    Cuban is a real hard worker and smart, but he also had the luck of being at the right place in time to capitalize on his fortunes and make...

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  • RE: Lossy data and incorrect data

    wolfkillj (8/14/2013)


    Somewhat OT, I'm old enough to remember using a high-speed Kodak electrophotographic copier with a fancy finishing unit attached. The whole thing was about 20 feet long, and, like...

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  • RE: Patch Problems

    This conundrum has always been one of my favorites. Apply the patches to keep your systems secure but potentially break something, or leave yourself vulnerable while testing patches (or...

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  • RE: Excel File with more than 256 columns

    CSV files can also alleviate some headaches from newer versions of Excel, which don't always play so well with SSIS 2005.

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  • RE: SSIS Question

    Seems there's a little confusion (or else I'm confused).

    As I understand it, checkpoint file usage is set in the Control Flow Properties sheet. Then you set the FailPackageOnFailure to...

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  • RE: Changing SQLServerCentral - Initial Thoughts

    I'll admit I'm mostly ambivalent about the newsletter change, though I prefer the older version only because it was easier on the old eyeballs.

    And I must admit I'm not all...

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  • RE: Growing Your SQL Server Skills without Breaking the Bank

    I'll add one that's so obvious it's easy to miss:

    PLAY

    Speaking as one who is living proof you can learn and improve SQL Server skills on the cheap, one of my...

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  • RE: concatenating date and time field

    In SSIS, I assume you have some DATEADD, DATEDIFF, CAST functions you can use. Or put this query in your task.

    SSIS does have DATEADD(), DATEDIFF(), and DATEPART() as well as...

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  • RE: The School Year

    In view of the coming big data/data analytics wave, I'm working my way through a book on calculus. I took an online Statistics class sponsored by Univ of Toronto...

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  • RE: Less QA?

    My boss related a story about some software he was troubleshooting in a call center. I don't recall if he developed it, but every so often the entire system...

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  • RE: Flying high on the Big Data hot-air

    Be it article or editorial, it's still a good summarization of the "third wave" so to speak of the database world. Right now the role of the data scientist...

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  • RE: Event Handlers in SSIS(OnError & OnPostExecute)

    If you check BOL, the OnPostExecute event fires after an executable finshes running. An error causes an executable to finish running.

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  • RE: Delete From Scripting Help

    2103? Lowell: You're ahead of your time. 🙂

    Also, it should be DATEPART(hh,PIT) <> 12 in the second part of the WHERE condition.

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  • RE: Do not fail package if the Data Flow Task fails

    You could use a Script Task to check for a valid connection before your Data Flow and then take different actions depending on the result. For example a Success...

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  • RE: What's in a name?

    I was thinking SSDT, too.

    Software updates in general seem to be driven more by marketing and perception than anything else, and don't EVEN get me started on version numbers. ...

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