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Creating Scripts To Insert Data From Existing Tables

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When we work with systems is inevitable to work with data that is manipulated by these, and there are moments when you need to move data created by one application to another database, but it's not necessary to copy all the database to another one, maybe you require just to move all data for particular tables. For this task, SQL Server can help us by using the "Generate Scripts..." option that it's into Management Studio tool, you only have to right-click over the source database and go to "Tasks" menu and here locate the option said before.     You will see the introduction, just click "Next". As I said at the beginning in this opportunity we are going to select a group of tables and not all the database. Specify the media where this result is going to be published. But, in this case it is necessary to click on "Advanced" option to personalized the operation. As we want just the data, select "Data only" i...

Using Calculated Fields in Dynamic Tables with Excel

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Honestly, I don't consider myself an expert in dynamic tables, although many people think that actually I am this is just because I know many tricks about Excel , however I don't use dynamic tables a lot and therefore there are things about this tables than I don't know. One day, when I was at work, a partner called me to watch his computer because he had a big doubt about something so he decided to ask me about it. He was managing a huge dynamic table that have a bigger simple table as data source, this dynamic table resumed all sales from region, but the problem was that he needed to show that resume not with the exact amount but rounded to thousands. At that moment I couldn't help him because I didn't know how to do it, but now I took a time for testing ways of doing that and I want to show you what could have done at that time. First at all create a simple table with few regions and sales value in 3 currencies.   With this information, select it a...

Attaching Files to Microsoft Word

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Probably you already know, but I work with systems, I mean, I analyze the client requirements and specify the features a new software or piece of it will have, to do so it's well know that exists an standard document where an analyst have to explain in detail how the feature will behave when the user interacts with it. Many times, it's necessary to make references to other documents to get the specification clearer enough, and this is why I thought about attaching files instead of referencing them because the person who this document was address for couldn't access to our repository, so I tried to send a unique file containing all the information to avoid any problem. As I did this through Word I'll show you how to do it in it, probably you can do the same with the other Office applications. The first thing you have to do is to prepare the file that is going to be attached, once you got this file you are now able to use it inside a parent file. The next step ...