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RE: Cube processing hanging in MOLAP db (URGENT)

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In order to process a cube, you must first process the dimensions. I start with the rule of processing shared dimensions first, non-shared dimensions second and the fact table last. In order to isolate your problem I suggest processing in this sequence manually. You may get lucky and find the dimension that is causing the […]

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2004-05-11

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RE: Copy contents of one table from one server to another

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If I understand your question correctly (obtain 50 rows via email), have your 'partner' export the 50 rows to a comma or tab delimited text file, zip it and then send it to you.  When you receive it, unzip and bcp in or bulk insert into your table.  Sounds so easy, I'm almost sure I'm […]

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2004-05-10

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RE: Question of the Day for 15 Apr 2004

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In SQL Server there are two large categories of roles: database and server. The sysadmin role is a server role. While we can create user-defined database roles, server roles are fixed. The list of built-in roles: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adminsql/ad_security_6ndx.asp

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2004-04-15

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RE: Changing Column Names in a Store Prosedure

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Please first tell me. Are you currently using SQL Server Yukon? Here is the answer to your question with assumption of SQL2K in use.Create views with different date ranges. You should able to provide two different column names in the two different views. If you provide more details of what compell you to use different […]

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2004-04-09

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DBNETLIB file missing?

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Hello allJust had a weird thing happen at a client's installation.  Long story short, we determined that DBNETLIB.DLL had magically gone missing, causing one of our production applications to fail.  No viruses, this was on a secured production server with no access available except to us and the local admin guy.Has anyone ever seen this […]

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2004-04-06

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RE: Passing List of Tables

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That would alos be a good solution.  Since I have a select statement that defines the tables I need to copy, I can pass the list to a table, temp table, sursor, etc.  I am mystified about how I get that result set into DTS so it can use it.

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2004-04-01

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RE: Restoring an SQLServer 2000 database - questions...

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First, that's NOT a large database. I've restored a 200+ GB database (yes, that's GIGABYTE).Next, how did you do the restore? Can you post your script?It looks like you may have used WITH NORECOVERY which will leave the database in LOADING state awaiting other backup files.WITH NORECOVERY is used when you have to also restore […]

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2004-03-30

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RE: DatePart Function

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I used this UDF alot to return only the date part. I got from some site. It is also possible to get the time part mathematically. I just forget the URL though!CREATE FUNCTION fn_Date ( @ADate datetime ) RETURNS datetime AS  BEGIN  declare @DateVal datetime  set @DateVal = CAST(FLOOR(CAST(@ADate AS float)) AS datetime) return @DateVal END

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2004-03-29

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