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  • RE: ANSI to UTF-8 conversion

    mister.magoo (4/11/2013)


    Thanks for that - will take a look.

    Much appreciated.

    If you did happen to grab the download before I took it down, don't bother looking. I was misreading the BOM...

  • RE: ANSI to UTF-8 conversion

    😛 I just realized something...converting a file from ANSI to UTF-8 is pretty much non-sensical unless you truly need the BOM. UTF-8 covers all 255 ANSI characters with the same...

  • RE: ANSI to UTF-8 conversion

    ...on hold...

  • RE: SQL 2K8 Edition Upgrade?

    You should be fine, i.e. after upgrading the Edition the build # should still be the same as what it was when you were on Standard, but check the build...

  • RE: ANSI to UTF-8 conversion

    I am pretty sure I tried it before posting but that code has long since evaporated. I'll try it again though. Chances are I was using 2012 too so I'll...

  • RE: SQL 2K8 Edition Upgrade?

    When moving to the higher edition there is not too much to consider in the way of features since Enterprise has all features Standard does. The optimizer is a little...

  • RE: Japanese characters as question marks

    The ? marks are a dead giveaway that non-printable ANSI characters are being pushed into an ANSI column or variable (i.e. VARCHAR or CHAR). The hollow squares might be a...

  • RE: ANSI to UTF-8 conversion

    SSIS sucks at producing UTF-8

    Why?

  • RE: Inserting into an auto increment PK field

    SQLTestUser (4/9/2013)


    and i have to insert values into this table but ensure that the first column is always inserted with a value that is one more than the primary key...

  • RE: SQL Server Jobs, status, duration running, step

    This might help get you started:

    $Instances = (Get-Content 'C:\Instances.txt') # Make a text file containing your instances, one on each line

    [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo") | Out-Null

    foreach ($instance in $Instances)

    {

    $sqlServer...

  • RE: writing data from Table to Excel files in Loop based On a condition

    Data Flow Task containing:

    1. OLE DB Source that selects the data you need to export as a single resultset, i.e. a SELECT statement

    2. Conditional Split that evaluates the ID column...

  • RE: Index Rebuild Taking too Long?

    ONLINE=ON is an Enterprise feature.

    The rebuild operation, even with ONLINE=ON, can be blocked depending on the iso level and what is using that table...but 10 hours would be a seriously...

  • RE: Warning - Columns With No Statistics

    Envious...it must be quite a nice thing to have the opportunity to just walk up and ask one of our community's best questions like this once in a while :-)...

  • RE: Linked servers

    Tobar (4/10/2013)


    Looking into to this more I do have a question:

    So to add a linked server you use sp_addlinkedserver and to delete it you use sp_dropserver?

    Not a great naming convention...

  • RE: Extract data from CSV file - SSIS

    Gosta Munktell (4/10/2013)


    You don't tell us how big the file is.

    You might not be able to store it in the internal memory and read it reversed?

    You do not need to...

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