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I left two years ago to drive a commercial vehicle. Best choice I ever made. I now make 80k a year driving a dedicated route, so home daily (and if not employer pays for hotel room). Class 8 driv...

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you want to compare the 2 folders, use the technique here. It basically uses the command line and robocopy (included with

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Thanks! Drag that txt file into Excel and you can then sort/filter.

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In reply to Mike Hnatt. Yeah, just change the data.Equals(s, compareType)...

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Any way of using wildcards in the compare? Such as *horsey* so that it would match "horse"?

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CONSTRAINT. There is a ticket on Microsoft Connect for this since 2007. As suggested there and here the best options as of today are to use a filtered index as stated in another answer or a comp...

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Thank you - excellent suggestions. However, I run into a practical problem: when a new folder with numerous subdirectories has been added, robocopy will list, besides the new root directory that ...

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Hey folks... you need to go back an read the prologue of my original article on the subject. Right after that article came out, a bunch of good people got together on the discussion for the artic...

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Do you still think this is true for programmers in 2020? I'm a programmer currently but looking to make the transition into a business owner (health insurance related). One of my motivating facto...

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Good one! I have also done 1 blog regarding this. Check below link- https://arulmouzhi.wordpress.com/2019/11/16/to-remove-multiple-and-duplicate-spaces-to-single-space-in-sql-server/

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