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Comment on Importing Excel Spreadsheets into SQL Server 2005 (SSIS) by Don

Don — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:37:13 +0000

I have found that copying your data to a text file (tab delimited in my case) and importing from there will bring in the numbers as well as the character data.

Just be sure to set all the column sizes in preview part (when defining your import file) to be large enough to accommodate the largest field or you get truncation errors.

Comment on Don’t Feed Dogs Sultanas! by Lee Palmer

Lee Palmer — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:33:17 +0000

We have a 3 yr old lab called Trevor who is currently in a vetinary hospital having IV fluids where he has been for the past 9 days having stolen and eaten a bag of sultanas. His creatanin levels are still high and no promises have been made as to his prognosis. We are desperate. Not one person we have spoken to who is a dog owner knows about how lethal sultanas can be to a dog. Where are the leaflets and advice in the vets or with breeders and pet shop owners? Does anyone have experience of a dog recovering after this length of time? He was taken to hospital within 24 hours of consuming them. We are desperate.

Comment on The Potential Dangers of the Read Committed Snapshot Isolation Level by Umasankar

Umasankar — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:34:11 +0000

Good example to demonstrate the negetive effect of Read commmited snapshot. subsequent Comment that suggested to place Updlock,rowlock is also good way around.Thank you.

Comment on Easily removing repeated lines using Excel by Jim

Jim — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:06:58 +0000

Thanks, Louie. That’s actually much more convenient – you don’t have to leave Management Studio! A little more complicated if there’s extra whitespace on the blank lines, but nothing a regex can’t fix.

The line-number/reorder/delete/reorder trick is still useful in other situations, just not this one anymore.

Comment on Easily removing repeated lines using Excel by Louie Bao

Louie Bao — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:31:43 +0000

How about Find and Replace?

Find what: go\n\n
Replace with:
Look in: Selection
Use: Regular exoressions

Comment on Relog.exe – Converting Perfmon data to a different format by idotta

idotta — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:18:30 +0000

Great, concise article. Appreciate it!

Comment on VMWare Balloon Drivers and SQL Server by rbaynes

rbaynes — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:36:29 +0000

You need to remember that the balloon driver only kicks in when there is contention for resources on the host. Chances are that if ballooning is occurring you need to look at the host resources – you may need to increase the amount of physical memory.

I don’t really condone using memory reservations, but this is an option you could use to guarantee your SQL VM has enough resources assigned to it. Reservations can be set in vCenter.

I would suggest lookign at these before you modify the bahaviour of your SQL install.

Comment on The Potential Dangers of the Read Committed Snapshot Isolation Level by Adam

Adam — Wed, 25 May 2011 00:43:57 +0000

This post is very interesting and quite intriging, but I got truly lost.

How a good quality code performing the above shoold look like?

How to do excactly what the code is doing in snapshot isolation and without it?

Comment on PRINT vs RAISERROR by Tejas

Tejas — Mon, 02 May 2011 03:16:27 +0000

Nice article. Informative, pricise and very useful.

Comment on T-SQL Tuesday #17–APPLY in Compatibility 80 by T-SQL Tuesday #17 Roundup - APPLY Knowledge | Matt Velic

T-SQL Tuesday #17 Roundup - APPLY Knowledge | Matt Velic — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:05:14 +0000

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