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  • Reply To: SSIS - intermittent connection issue to DB2 after upgrade to 2019

    Update: I disabled all of the tasks except the ones that had failed when I ran the package from the job, then tried to run the package from my desktop. ...

    Jennifer Levy (@iffermonster)

  • RE: Better Training

    Computer science degree from a liberal arts school here. Our major started with programming, the "weed-out" course (Assembly Language) was a 200-level one, as were the hard theory required...

    Jennifer Levy (@iffermonster)

  • RE: Geeky Entertainment

    The first volume of Naomi Novik's Temeraire series is apparently somewhere in the process of becoming a movie and I can't wait to see what happens with it.

    I'd love to...

    Jennifer Levy (@iffermonster)

  • RE: Visitor Parking

    No experience with this in the corporate world (the visitor spaces have never had any time limit, although we have had emails from management that there were employees in visitor...

    Jennifer Levy (@iffermonster)

  • RE: What's in a Name?

    I went to a women's college in the mid-'90s. In my dorm of ~60 women, we had 8 Jennifers, and that seemed to be the ratio across campus. ...

    Jennifer Levy (@iffermonster)

  • RE: A Release from Data

    Agreed completely with finding some kind of stress relief outside of the coding world. My martial arts training leans more towards the mental than the physical though. I've...

    Jennifer Levy (@iffermonster)

  • RE: Why SQL Server?

    I certainly fell into database development work. I avoided the one database course they offered at school because I couldn't stand the professor. My first job was in...

    Jennifer Levy (@iffermonster)

  • RE: What Counts for a DBA: Being Replaceable

    This is true for not just DBAs, but everyone who does anything that is not plain "a trained monkey could do it" work. Make yourself irreplaceable in other ways,...

    Jennifer Levy (@iffermonster)

  • RE: OPENQUERY error: An unexpected NULL value was returned

    Jeff, I hope it helps.

    MyDoggieJessie, unfortunately it comes back with the same error whether I specify the columns in the inner select statement or not.

    Jennifer Levy (@iffermonster)

  • RE: OPENQUERY error: An unexpected NULL value was returned

    I had to change the numeric columns on the SQL Server side to allow NULLs, but it ran just fine once I'd done that.

    Jennifer Levy (@iffermonster)

  • RE: OPENQUERY error: An unexpected NULL value was returned

    With regards to the SQL Server, we backed up the database on ServerA and restored it as-is on to ServerB. I've been the only one working on the SQL...

    Jennifer Levy (@iffermonster)

  • RE: Social Media and Interviews

    As data professionals, I would think that every last one of us would refuse to give away our login information to ANY social networking site. We are entrusted with...

    Jennifer Levy (@iffermonster)

  • RE: Enabling a DB user to trigger only certain jobs

    Thanks very much! I'll give it a look. I've never done anything using certificates (no surprise since the document you've linked to notes that they weren't available prior...

    Jennifer Levy (@iffermonster)

  • RE: FLAT FILE Source (only want to load 1st row)

    Thanks all! Got the coding finished yesterday, waiting on one more bit of info from the business before I can test it. Here's hoping...

    Jennifer Levy (@iffermonster)

  • RE: FLAT FILE Source (only want to load 1st row)

    Thanks, Craig! I'll take a look and hopefully I'll be able to get things working.

    Jennifer Levy (@iffermonster)

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