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  • RE: What's a Toaster?

    Notepad++ and MS Office at work. At home it's Miicrosoft's OneNote using OneDrive to sync seamlessly between desktop, laptop and windows phone. I can scan or find on the web...

  • RE: Back again with more stored procedure troubles

    katland226 you might hate stored procedures now and I hope one day you will understand them and favour them in your development as I do, but I also hope you...

  • RE: Get database size, used space, free space

    Many people don't realise that you can just open up management studio (sql server 2008 onwards), select your server, select databases and right click the column headings to choose which...

  • RE: ETL design question

    I see only "JOIN" so that's INNER JOINs on all your tables i.e. if one is missing a record then nothing returns for that whole output row.

    I would use...

  • RE: Conversion of varchar to datetime

    convert(datetime, substring(replace(MANUFACTURED_DATE,'/',''),5,2) +

    substring(replace(MANUFACTURED_DATE,'/',''),3,2) + substring(replace(MANUFACTURED_DATE,'/',''),1,2),112)

    That's just so unnecessary - read the Books online entry for convert. (tip: highlight the word convert in your query in management studio and press...

  • RE: Newbie - Data Source Issue

    Ah, you need to learn the tool controls. It's an "easy when you know how" thing.

    Above those three in the report data window is a New dropdown.

    Choose new datasource....

  • RE: db created in sql server 2005 to Attach in sql server 2008?

    why not just back it up on 2005 and restore it on 2008?

    create any sql logins on the 2008 server and relink the orphaned users

    and while you're at it...

  • RE: The Final Service Packs

    crussell-931424 (10/2/2014)


    Hearing the word Final makes me realize how far behind I really am.

    We're still trying to UPgrade databases onto SQL Server 2008!

  • RE: No Compelling Reason

    We're still concentrating on getting everything up to 2008 and consolidating servers onto windows 2008R2 with plenty of virtualisation.

    I don't think 2014 has had UK government security sign off...

  • RE: Avoiding Cursors

    I've rewritten some of our report writers' cursor queries lately, mainly thanks to going on Itzik Ben-Gan's Advanced T-SQL course last year and reading his Inside SQL Server 2008 T-SQL...

  • RE: Daily CSV import to SQL - How ?

    Jeff Moden (9/17/2014)


    P Jones (9/17/2014)


    ...and wait until it is fully available ....

    I'm curious. What are you using to determine that a file is done being written to and is...

  • RE: Daily CSV import to SQL - How ?

    SSIS can also do this well along with SQL Agent to run the SSIS package. Either waiting for a file to appear in a folder or running at specified times...

  • RE: Storing temporary data within a select statement

    CTEs are just so much more elegant and readable and easier to test each step - I've ended up with 6 in one query to build up data and do...

  • RE: DevOps

    It's all so very "big company".

    In a smaller outfit like this with only half a dozen in the dev team covering DBA, design, development and day-to-day application support, you...

  • RE: Back in the USSRS

    Grins and nods - been there! SSRS multiselect can be a real pain, especially with string parameters.

    Which is why our report writers insist on having Jeff Moden's DelimitedSplit8K [/url] and...

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