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Ed Dague’s blog has a new home

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This is old news, but still worth mentioning.  Ed Dague’s blog has moved from Blogspot to a new location hosted by the Albany Times Union.  If you want to le...

Domain name change

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As of today, the address of this blog is now http://anotherlab.rajapet.net/.  The old name, http://anotherlab.blogspot.com, still works but you’ll see the ne...

SQL UPDATE from another row in the same table

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My SQL skills are getting rusty.  I have some code where I needed to quickly copy a field from one row in a table to another row in the same table.  Basciall...

Understanding SQL Server error 18456

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I came across an odd problem with SQL Server Express.  We have a test server with various versions of SQL Server installed for QA to use.   Of the QA techs w...