Mahmood, would you please bold the places where you made chances to the code to make it easier to read?

Lowell (7/11/2012)

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deprecation?

last i heard, the views were there to stay, but could be changed;

some article i read said any changes would be things like adding columns to the end of...

Lowell, Ah. Interesting. I didn't think about it that way.

FYI: Please don't think I was saying "it's bad to use sys.columns." I was just genuinely curious why people would still...

Just a note on forms. So far as I know, a label box doesn't actually point to a database & table. It is just a label. So trying to connect...

Lowell (7/11/2012)

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here's what i use , a procedure i built called sp_UglySearch.

since you are searching every table/column for text, this is slow, and any tables with a Million rows are...

Commenting for me is CTL - Shift - C and CTL - Shift - R to remove. But I'm using SQL 2008 with the keyboard option set to SQL 2000.

Sumit,

Please don't make duplicate posts on the same issue. It is considered rude to repost the same question multiple times, especially to the people trying to help you.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1328029-391-1.aspx

That is not true. You can make the database compatible with SQL 2000 datatypes & such, but you cannot change the...

Does your Flat File Connector have that column properly set as string?

Can you show us an example of File to Table conversion? (I can't see 4000 only showing up as...

Clark,

There are a lot of us that don't open attachments. Could you post your code in your reply, along with a CREATE TABLE statement (DDL) and an INSERT statement containing...

This type of code has already been posted on many sites using various methods, even this one. Try the search feature on this site and a search engine. If you...

Sumit,

Please script out your table as a DDL (CREATE TABLE) statement and give us sample data in the form of an INSERT script so we can help you out.

I assume...

Is this a homework assignment?

I don't know any of the new books, but I do recommend studying recovery / backup, learning all variations on the SELECT statement, and security.

rmechaber (7/10/2012)

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Brandie, here's a link I found that suggests it is possible to fail a job step with RAISERROR:

http://www.bidn.com/blogs/Daniel/ssas/2313/force-a-sql-agent-job-step-to-fail

I just tested this by creating a dummy Agent job with 2...