Difficulty with partial fraction decomp.

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I have an equation of the following form:
[tex]\frac {dz}{z^2 - z}[/tex]

Of course, I factor this into:
[tex](z + \sqrt{z})(z - \sqrt{z})[/tex]

then,
[tex] \frac{A}{z + \sqrt{z}} + \frac{B}{z - \sqrt{z}}[/tex]

of course cross multiply the denominators to get:
[tex]A(z - \sqrt{z}) + B(z + \sqrt{z}) = 1[/tex]

But then what? do I equate the z terms to 1 and the square root terms to 0?
 
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nevermind

nevermind, my factorization was wrong.