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Seems like the spam is ramping up again.
All the bots are on holiday from Thanks Giving, so they need something else to do with their time. 😉
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November 26, 2019 at 12:03 pm
Given it is RTM, I would at least expect that the installer works or notifies about the requirements
Have a look at the installation logs; they are far more verbose...
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November 25, 2019 at 4:25 pm
Spin up containers. Easier, faster. Or, a VM on Azure. Again, easier & faster. Especially just for testing stuff out.
Have to agree that using a Container makes things so...
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November 25, 2019 at 3:25 pm
Cross post, and I repeat my comment from there: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58961759/sql-server-integration-services-2016-error-cannot-bulk-load-xml-file
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November 20, 2019 at 11:38 pm
(and for me begs a different question whose answer is probably well documented - how would you get full month names in this context?) .
That would be MMMM:
Thom~
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November 20, 2019 at 5:04 pm
I have never met a 3 digit month before
MMM notation for a month means the first 3 characters of the name of the month? m and d, etc,...
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November 20, 2019 at 4:10 pm
Agreed, a Script Component is what you want, not a Script Task; the 2 are distinctly different (1 for use in the Control Flow the other the Data Flow)....
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November 20, 2019 at 9:11 am
Just remember that the YYYY-MM-DD formats aren't actually followed as ISO in SQL Server even though it is a valid ISO format. For example, if you set the language...
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November 20, 2019 at 9:04 am
123456|20130701|AWD|WS1035575|20170201|VCDF|MA1064844|20110001|NHS|AS19474754|20160401|EFV7|LK
Is more than 4 columns. What is your row delimiter here, the 4th | character? If so, can you change that? Using a row delimiter that's the...
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November 19, 2019 at 3:54 pm
This is backend tables are on SQL server where I got access to retrieve data where datatype for POdate is nvarchar(48).
That doesn't explain the data type choice. A varchar...
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November 19, 2019 at 3:47 pm
Jeff Moden wrote:What is the actual datatype of the POdate column?
Datatype is nvarchar(48) but when I run Isdate() function it shows 1 which is valid date.
ISDATE() , like it's "friend"...
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November 19, 2019 at 2:13 pm
(38,0) default
I think not. You should really test things before posting them here. Using a precision of 0 causes immediate rounding to the nearest whole number.

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November 18, 2019 at 4:50 pm
This is pseudo-SQL, but seems like you'd be better off with a start and end parameter, which you set at the start of the batch:
DECLARE @StartDate date...
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November 18, 2019 at 3:46 pm
Thanks, Thom. Understood on the 2019 stuff. I was under the impression that it wasn't actually a "4th" type... I was under the impression that if SQL Server could...
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November 18, 2019 at 3:13 pm
declare @num decimal
decimal what? Where's your scale and precision?
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November 18, 2019 at 2:14 pm
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