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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    p.s.  I've also adopted the policy of NVO (No Verbal Orders), especially for "urgencies".  It there's not a well documented ticket to support the urgency, it doesn't get done. ...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: EXECUTE sp_executesql

    elkinfortiz wrote:

    Gracias por responder. El parametro  @ ParmDefinition  Es una variable Unicode exigida por el procedimiento sp_executesql. Desde tu perspectiva, estoy seguro que no es una invocacion a otro store...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: Identity column as Primary Key - good or bad?

    roger.plowman wrote:

    As for "real" keys, are you serious??? Unique index, possibly a constraint for validation (for keys that have some regular pattern or rules) and boom, done. Move on. How...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: Flat File connection configuration

    Brad Allison wrote:

    What is the best practice in SSIS to handle that situation?

    Tell your connection manager your text is Quote Identified (with the " character); it's an simple as that. Then...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: Flat File connection configuration

    You want the box highlighted in the below image (which says <none>), and need to put in ":

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: Flat File connection configuration

    Set the value of the Quote Identifier to " in your connection manager; then refresh the columns.

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: SQL to SQLite

    Honestly, I don't really trust converters. You're far better off doing this yourself. Yes, it might seem like a longer task, but converters make mistakes, can't replicate certain behaviour, or...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: Dynamic Insert Command

    Updated to no longer assume, all tables have an IDENTITY property column:

    USE UNFI_WEST_F;
    GO

    DECLARE @SQL nvarchar(MAX),
    @CRLF nchar(2) = NCHAR(13) +...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: invoke-sqlmcd with another user

    Is there a reason you can't launch the Powershell window as a different user?

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: SSIS not continuing to next step

    Phil Parkin wrote:

    How did you execute the package? Did you right-click and select 'Execute Task' by any chance?

    Also, if you double-click on the precedence constraint (the line between the two tasks),...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: SSIS not continuing to next step

    Have a look at the progress pane, rather than the Debug window.

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: Dynamic Insert Command

    SQLian wrote:

    An oversight.

    Fair enough, we all do them. Took me 20 minutes to work out that i'd typed 2 instead of 1 in a statement earlier, and couldn't for the...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: Dynamic Insert Command

    SQLian wrote:

    There are probably several ways of doing this. One approach is something like this: 

    Why omit QUOTENAME in the initial statement?

    Personally, I would do it like this, and not just...

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by Thom A.

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  • Reply To: how to remove underscore in between date and time stamp

    If you don't want underscores in your final value, why are you replacing " " with "_"? That's like saying you don't want a blue car, you want a red...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Don't you just love it when you get a "urgent" work request that needs to be done "NOW", because it's impacting staff productivity, so you get the work done in...

    Thom~

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