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What do YOU think project estimation is? It really is too wide a term - having many different meanings - to attempt a simple answer. So please narrow the scope of your questions.

Right click on the row in the Columns grid and choose Edit Row.

In the Nullable folder add "Null Field Value" from the Available properties to add. This is where you can set the null field value. It must be a valid timestamp, such as 9999-12-31 23:59:59

There is no such thing as version 8.2. (That's a major difference!)

The next version after 8.1 is 8.5, which has been generally available for just over a month.

If the connection is broke maybe you could give it some money!

Can you log in using the Administrator client? It uses a slightly different mechanism.

No, it's to help you to diagnose where the problem might lie.

Try forcing the format of the columns in Excel to be "Text".

Try re-booting the client (the "Microsoft solution"). You may have a dirty connection handle.

Learn about the Search capability in DSXchange. Indeed, this very question has already been asked (and answered) this week.

Actually there's another impact on server jobs, that they have to interact with the parallel engine (and therefore data have to be converted from typeless to typed or vice versa when things like process metadata are being collected).

There wasn't much more, so I unblocked it.

3KB is nothing. Don't search to try to reduce that! Reference data in a Lookup stage are all loaded into memory, so there will be no I/O involved. You will need to look elsewhere to find what is demanding I/O resources - try using the DataStage Performance Analysis tool.

No, it's mainly about there being a radically different architecture. Version 8 is totally a service-oriented architecture, whereas version 7 is not. There's a lot more happening to support DataStage (the rest of the Information Server suite) in version 8, all of which consume some resources. The pr...

The first partition number is 0, not 1.