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  • RE: Referential Integrity: Who needs it - right? (Discussion)

    Jeff Moden (5/8/2012)


    opc.three (5/8/2012)


    jasonmorris (5/8/2012)


    Has anybody come across the CADIS Enterprise Data Management product?

    Where I work they always insist that any import tables for third party text data are nvarchar(4000)...

    There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
    --Plato

  • RE: Referential Integrity: Who needs it - right? (Discussion)

    jasonmorris (5/8/2012)


    Has anybody come across the CADIS Enterprise Data Management product?

    Where I work they always insist that any import tables for third party text data are nvarchar(4000) and there is...

    There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
    --Plato

  • RE: Need to add buffer records into a CSV files to provide filler between gaps in record IDs

    Try left joining from a Tally table to your data on export to fill the gaps.

    Here is a derived Tally table you could use:

    -- From: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Tally+Table/72993/

    WITH E1(N) AS (

    ...

    There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
    --Plato

  • RE: Help with UDFs

    lil_emery13 (5/7/2012)


    I am using MySQL through phpMyAdmin. Sorry for not clarifying.

    No problem. This website is devoted to Microsoft SQL Server. While current versions of MySQL support User-defined Functions the SQL...

    There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
    --Plato

  • RE: How to restrict users on Mirrored Database?

    Do they need access to other databases or resources on the instance? If the answer is no just disable their logins.

    If the answer is yes then it gets a bit...

    There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
    --Plato

  • RE: Primary Key column also a Foreign Key column in same table...

    My test started with an empty table.

    IF EXISTS ( SELECT *

    FROM sys.objects

    ...

    There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
    --Plato

  • RE: Primary Key column also a Foreign Key column in same table...

    I have never seen such a thing in the wild...I was wondering if inserts might even be blocked so ran a quick test...they work. I also ran an execution plan...

    There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
    --Plato

  • RE: Querying group names containing dollar signs with WMI

    Nice! Happy to assist...I bet that felt good 😉

    There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
    --Plato

  • RE: querying from Excel

    polkadot (5/6/2012)


    additionally, this will not work because the excel file that needs to be queried is not on the same server as the instance of SQL Server that needs to...

    There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
    --Plato

  • RE: Querying group names containing dollar signs with WMI

    You're welcome 🙂

    There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
    --Plato

  • RE: Checkbox group in Security and Search

    If you spell it incorrectly the CREATE LOGIN command will let you know via refusing to create a login off a non-existent AD group. Sorry, I can't help with the...

    There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
    --Plato

  • RE: Start a remote service from SQL??

    It also looks like you're trying to turn your SQL Server into an application server. What are you attempting to accomplish that you need to start a service on a...

    There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
    --Plato

  • RE: Help with UDFs

    lil_emery13 (5/5/2012)


    Thanks for your help, will look into create function.

    Can you please confirm you're platform is SQL Server, and that the version you'll be developing for is SQL Server 2008?

    I...

    There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
    --Plato

  • RE: Referential Integrity: Who needs it - right? (Discussion)

    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (5/6/2012)


    SQL_ME_RICH (5/4/2012)


    The other consideration was their desire for speed over the accuracy of the data. Yes - you read that correctly. :crazy:

    :w00t: Yes, absolutely crazy. Nothing...

    There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
    --Plato

  • RE: Patching: for sql servers and windows generally

    The company where I am currently will only apply Service Packs, reasoning that Hotfixes, bunches of hotfixes like CUs and QFEs are only unit tested, i.e. that Microsoft only guarantees...

    There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
    --Plato

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