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  • RE: The Vacation Struggle

    Lots of good points. I understand how difficult it can be sometimes to get away for vacation. I used to get that a lot and found it very...

  • RE: how to write expression for Derived Column transform

    KoldCoffee (6/1/2013)


    Hmmm, certainly looks promising, but I don't see COALESCE() available in SSIS transforms. Do you?

    I apologize -- I should not have even commented on the thread. I...

  • RE: how to write expression for Derived Column transform

    KoldCoffee (5/30/2013)


    Still.....if I weren't unpivoting then I wouldn't have a solution. I wonder....how would I do the equivalent of this?

    where

    [Month 01] is null and

    [Month 02] is null and

    [Month...

  • RE: The best method for reading books

    Technically, I haven't yet purchased any SQL books for it but since I got my Kindle it is my favorite way of reading most books -- it is compact; light;...

  • RE: Create BAT File and execute the same in Trigger

    mail2payan (5/10/2013)


    Dear InoLand,

    Thank you for this valuable suggestion.

    The insert part will one-by-one only, not multiple insert as this a very crucial part and that's why only one person will have...

  • RE: Create BAT File and execute the same in Trigger

    Are you aware that your trigger will not work if someone inserts multiple rows into the Project table in a single transaction. For instance, try it with something like...

  • RE: A Check and Foreign Key Constraint Improves Query Performance

    arnipetursson (4/26/2013)


    I agree. It is a tautological example.

    You would not need an "exists" check if you have a foreign key constraint.

    Though I know that I have used...

  • RE: Relational Model versus XML

    I was confused by the lack of an option, "Irrelevant, since markup languages should have been abandoned at least 30 years ago." 😉

    - Les

  • RE: Select GROUP BY QUERY

    If you want help, to start with, you really need to explain what it is you are trying to do. You posted a query which doesn't do what you...

  • RE: Hierarchies on Steroids #2: A Replacement for Nested Sets Calculations

    Jeff -

    Thanks so much for the articles. I'd read about nested sets some time ago but they looked too unwieldy to maintain. The techniques you have used here...

  • RE: Tally table question

    Lowell (5/11/2012)


    others will certainly do it differently than I do, but I have three different tables for accomplishing Tally-related objectives:

    Tally, which starts with 1,

    TallyCalendar, which is all date related.

    and Numbers,...

  • RE: Little help please

    pfm200586 (10/12/2011)Second question :

    VendorState----------VendorCity-------------VendorName------------------InvoiceQty-----------------InvoiceAvg

    AZ--------------------Phoenix---------------Wells Fargo Bank-------------------1------------------------662.00

    CA---------------------Fresno---------------Digital Dreamworks------------------1------------------------7125.34

    CA---------------------Fresno------------Fresno County Tax Collector------------1------------------------856.92

    CA--------------------Fresno--------------------Pollstar-------------------------1-----------------------1750.00

    CA--------------------Fresno-------------------Yesmed, Inc---------------------1-----------------------4901.26

    The only problem I see from the choises is that the fifth field name is wrong but the choice says...

  • RE: First Normal Form

    Eric M Russell (6/30/2011)


    I never contain phone or address related columns in something like the primary customer table.

    #1 An address or phone number isn't an attribute or measure of...

  • RE: Loop through two tables to populate third

    sku370870 (6/13/2011)


    The code I posted is made up - the real tables all to do with medicene and would not easily make sense.

    But, to continue using my (pseudo) code -...

  • RE: PK Identity as a convention, always more effective when there is a single int natural key?

    ShawnTherrien (5/28/2011)


    So every table in the database has an identity ID field as the PK.

    If I take a table like Person and everything related to a person is a...

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