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“RowGUID is neither a DataColumn nor a DataRelation for table summary. (System.Data)”

We had merge replication in SQL Server 2005 set up that was working fine, except when trying to view conflicts, the Conflict Viewer would give this error: “RowGUID is neither a DataColumn nor a DataRelation for table summary. (System.Data)”.

The source of this it turns out was actually a period in the Publication name, as we [...]

Aggregate to CSV

Sometimes we need to rollup string values into lists of comma separated values. Using “FOR XML PATH” per column that you want to rollup can provide a way to do this.

This example was created based on work in this thread:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic802508-1672-1.aspx

Let’s say you have a data set like so:

id
fruit
city

101
Apple
Cleveland

101
Apple
Pittsburgh

101
Banana
Pittsburgh

102
Grape
Cleveland

102
Melon
Cleveland

103
Melon
Pittsburgh

103
Melon
Cleveland

and for each distinct “id”, you want [...]

Memory Leak in For Loop Container?

Today, as I was working on a project, I found an opportunity to use the For Loop Container. The basic setup, was three tables, A, B, C for simplicity.

Table A is the Header, Table B a sub-header related to table A via an ID, and Table C related to Table B via an id. [...]

Generating a Date Dimension the easy way

While there are different views on how to build different dimensions, there seems to be a common view of how, at least the basic information, of date dimensions looks. This can take a little time to build out. To help in building this dimension, I created a simple table valued function that takes in a [...]