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  • RE: trimming SSNs

    jcelko212 32090 - Friday, March 15, 2019 11:40 AM

    ScottPletcher - Friday, March 15, 2019 9:04 AM

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  • RE: trimming SSNs

    jcelko212 32090 - Thursday, March 14, 2019 8:19 PM

    ScottPletcher - Thursday, March 14, 2019 3:01 PM

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  • RE: trimming SSNs

    jcelko212 32090 - Thursday, March 14, 2019 1:44 PM

    briancampbellmcad - Wednesday, March 13, 2019 9:50 AM

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  • RE: Difference in checksum calculations.

    Maybe two separate hashes: (1) all the other columns and (2) the 4K column alone?

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  • RE: insert to .XLSX fails if len(column) > 255

    polkadot - Wednesday, March 13, 2019 10:46 AM

    In this case TRIM won't be acceptable.  I have also tried ORDER BY len(materialdescription_ups) DESC,...

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  • RE: insert to .XLSX fails if len(column) > 255

    Trim it within the SELECT statement:


    --insert records into $Sheet1 of Template
    SET @SqlCmd =    
    'INSERT OPENDATASOURCE   
    ( ''Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0'',''Data Source=' + @ServerShare + '\' + @ExportFileName...

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  • RE: Script to close the excel file

    There should be some way to copy the file even with the "busy" flag on.  Then open the copy, not the original.

    That is, the logic becomes:
    check for...

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  • RE: SQL help to match only 3 values

    For 3 varchar values, it's tricky, and I'd have to do some testing/experimenting first. 

    For 3 numeric values, it's easy to list all 3.

    For only 2 values of...

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  • RE: SQL help to match only 3 values

    It looked you also wanted to list the specific values found.

    That's easy for two values, much trickier for 3 (3 numeric values is easy, but not 3 char...

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  • RE: SQL help to match only 3 values

    SELECT pid
    FROM @table1
    GROUP BY pid
    HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT gcode) = 3

    I don't understand why you don't have p1 and p3 in your result set.

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  • RE: Filtering by date crashes report\query

    Would have to see the query plan to be sure, but it seems like SQL may be doing an implicit conversion on the date column, which would cause big performance...

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  • RE: which way is better for joins? or are both options popular?

    DesNorton - Wednesday, March 6, 2019 9:35 PM

    I suspect that the question is more along the lines of ....

    Which is better?

    [code...

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  • RE: Query runs slow when executing under the context of a different DB

    It seems like maybe something is blocking the "slow" run, although I'm not sure what it would be.

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  • RE: Changing the isolation level without wrapping code in BEGIN / COMMIT TRAN

    You don't need to do an explicit transaction.  Once you put the level into effect, it will stay in effect until/unless you explicitly change/override it.

    SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL...

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  • RE: Convert epoch to human readable date

    Divide it by 1000, to add seconds, so it seems based on the value returned:

    SELECT DATEADD(SECOND, (1551279347054/1000), '19700101')

    If you need to keep the milliseconds, you can...

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