Please do not duplicate post. Go back and edit when you run into an issue such as the contiuoius string.

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No but you could force the time to midnight for all by doing

DATEADD(d,DATEDIFF(d,0,[value/column/getdate()]),0)

So doing

DATEADD(d,DATEDIFF(d,0,getdate()),0)

will give you current day but time will be midnight.

It depends on what the query engine decides. If it may be lengthy and not fit in memory it will write out to a tabl in TempDB. If it can...

This may help.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/techart/pooling2.htm

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/sk_connection_pooling_myths.asp

First adUseClient offloads all the recordset to the memory of the calling application location (in the case of IIS it is the IIS server).

adUseServer retains much of the recordset in...

Persoanlly I think it is more of a control issue. By using SPs the DBA potientially takes there hand out of the pie and they don't like it.

It does indeed but many view that as a plus since novice users have more empowerment at this and should mean that developement groups can do more use the WYSIWYG...

My understanding is it is the default value constraint of a column. The only thing is that DRIDefault is the object parameter itself for DMO programming. Such as CursorType is...

I have not seen nor heard of any age requirement. If you can pay for the test you can take it is all I know of.

The problem here

DECLARE @status AS VARCHAR(20)

SET @status = char(39) + 'ER' + char(39) +', ' + char(39) + 'OK' + char(39)

/*@Status = 'ER', 'OK' */ 

SELECT * FROM TABLEA WHERE TABLEA.Status IN...

Three things to add to that article.

1. States "(and of course, if this is all you're doing, then don't forget the 5th/6th lines of code -- CLOSE the connection and...

The one without time is midnight. To do the same on the other join like so

ON

tbl1.dtfield = dateadd(d,datediff(d,0,tbl2.dtfield),0)

this assumes tbl2 is the one with time. It strips to midnight and...

First a simple demonstration of SP security versus inline method should help.

Inline

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Create table with several data elements

Create a user

Give that user read/write access to the table created

Change the data in...

What happens with the backup. Are you wanting to keep all your data or just prior days?

If that then consider creating a backup table and do something like so.

BEGIN TRANS

TRUNCATE...

The contiguousness of the data file itself can speed things up dramatically or not much at all. The higher the fragmentation the longer it will take for the OS to...