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  • RE: Trying insert long data into OLEDB to excel

    Check your Flat File Connection Manager, make sure you've specified the appropriate data types and lengths for the fields you are mapping into Excel.

    If you've not done it this way...

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  • RE: Rebuilding a server

    If you restore master, you will need to fix the logins for any orhpaned users., Not typically an issue however, if one of the orphaned users was the owner...

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  • RE: Linked server login problem

    For the same reason as what I mentioned above, it's a security risk. Linked servers allow security through a single account only: whether it be a sql account or...

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  • RE: How do you convert varchar to a float

    Awesome! Please mark the post as helpful so others will know to use the same 😉

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  • RE: Linked server login problem

    Windows AD groups are not supported for linked Servers. This is by design and per MS, will not likely be changed going forward (based upon articles I've read in...

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  • RE: SSRS: dataset error, <procedure or function has too many arguments specified >

    Running in the query designer is not the same as running it through the service (web browser)

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  • RE: Rebuilding a server

    You may want to read through this article - http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2571/restoring-sql-server-system-databases-msdb-and-model/

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  • RE: How do you convert varchar to a float

    In the SSIS package, use the Data Conversion control in "Data Flow Transformations" to convert it on the fly, the output into your table will then be a float

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  • RE: Adhoc Vs Prepared/Procs - SQL Queries

    Gotcha. I missed the obvious 😉

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  • RE: SSIS

    SELECT @@VERSIO N, if the base SQL install is 64-bit then you installed SSIS as 64-bit

    Ex: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (SP3) - 10.0.5512.0 (X64) Aug 22 2012 19:25:47...

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  • RE: Adhoc Vs Prepared/Procs - SQL Queries

    Grant Fritchey (2/25/2014)


    Yep. Those are the kind that I'd replace with some kind of parameterized query.

    If you can't for some reason, then optimize for ad hoc, absolutely, and, possibly, forced...

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  • RE: Linked server 'select' access to view

    Please post the view DDL

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  • RE: Adhoc Vs Prepared/Procs - SQL Queries

    Creating a procedure versus TSQL execution isn't going to buy you any performance gain as the execution plan for it will be the same. But I am curious, have you...

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  • RE: Linked server 'select' access to view

    This is perhaps a silly question: When you run the "select top(1) * from linkedservername.dbname.dbo.Viewname" on the physical server itself, does it return a record?

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  • RE: SSRS: dataset error, <procedure or function has too many arguments specified >

    Sounds like an issue with the number of parameters defined in the actual RDL file on the SSRS server, versus the number of parameters the procedure actually has (i.e....

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