No, i dont anticipate it being recurring.

Its part of a migration to a virtual environment. We're trying to limit licensing and consoidate former standalone servers that used to be linked...

pmfji, but maybe a table level check clause could accomplish your goals?

God i love this site!

Thank you bangsql, Scott and Gail, for your explanation, elucidation and especially for the link.

i already feel 2% smarter <g>

best

drew

Thank you both Christian and Daniel.

I admit i may have gone overboard on emphasizing the graphical versus tablular presentaitons!

That was a good report user taxonomy

Thanks very much for the food...

i missed that...sorry to have been so dense.

i'll try again at work

thanks very much

My initial reaction is while that would create uniqueness based on the id, the content of the row is still duplicate.

I will try it out and see if that gets...

First, thank you Jason, Scott and Gail for your attention, time and advice.

Second, NUTS! the requirement of a pk or unique index torpedo's my intention, as the source does not...

Thanks a ton...i thought i tried this today, but clicked on a level too low but clicking on the top level exposed the Add Existing....

thanks very much

drew

i think you would probably benefit from watching the 'Looping through files' video here.

http://www.sqlshare.com/search.aspx?terms=brian knight&page=4

after that, anything you find at this site by this author is worth your...

a very reasonable heuristic.

thanks very much for your reply.

Thanks very much;

Is it fair to say that the Senior DBA has command of a specialty, either in the BI world or more traditional?

To clarify, by BI i mean SSAS,...

thanks very much, that's a big help

Never mind, i found the tutorials in BOL

thanks again

sorry...found it

Now its in Windows-> Float instead of Environment->General

thanks

Good God I love this place!

Thank you all so much for your time and ideas.

Its given me a lot better appreciation of where the weaknesses are in our own processes.

Some...