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  • RE: Update many tables without hardcoding the table name

    ireshasun (3/26/2008)


    I want to update over 700 tables. I don't know how to write a SQL query to update tables without hardcoding the table name.

    Can anyone help me.

    Hi. In...

  • RE: Native Client error connecting with SQLCMD

    :blush: OK, I'll freely admit that I'm an idiot. It turns out that the SQL Network Interfaces line told the entire story. The command literally couldn't find...

  • RE: Thoughts on Andy Warren's Article 'Management'

    Loner (2/25/2008)


    DonaldW, I read the article from SELF magazine about woman having trouble to let go of bad manager experience.

    A few years ago, I landed a job and this was...

  • RE: Thoughts on Andy Warren's Article 'Management'

    Loner (2/24/2008)


    Andy Warren wrote an article about management. It is the career move for many senior DBAs and SQL developers. In most cases, many companies promoted senior programmers...

  • RE: Favorite Book Quote

    EdVassie (2/22/2008)


    My favourite quote from a technical book is from Graeme Birchall in the DB2 SQL Cookbook. This is a free resource, and contains much good advice on using...

  • RE: Favorite Book Quote

    Brandie Tarvin (2/21/2008)


    I'm glad I started this thread. I've been enjoying everyone's quotes. @=)

    It IS fun not only to see what people are reading but to get an idea...

  • RE: Favorite Book Quote

    Steve Jones - Editor (2/13/2008)


    Never read Monk. Come to think of it, I'm not sure there are any great quotations from books that strike me.

    In one of Janet Evanovich's novels...

  • RE: The Burden of Proof

    Adrian Nichols (2/8/2008)


    If companies are too worried about their code being opened up to the public perhaps, in legal cases, the code can be disclosed to the Expert Witnesses on...

  • RE: I am so depressed after I work on Question of the Day

    Brandie Tarvin (2/4/2008)


    One thing for sure. For those of us who go looking for the answer before we click anything, the QoD sure can hone a person's research skills....

  • RE: How to pass multi-row table data into stored proc

    Tom Leykis (2/4/2008)


    This is how I've always done it in the past:

    while @count < 10

    begin

    select @count = @count + 1

    ...

  • RE: The January Car Update

    My tractor gets better mileage that many cars. I'm considering driving it to work every day. Parking at home would be problematic but in parking lots I'd win...

  • RE: Like Operator.

    GilaMonster (1/30/2008)


    Probably because you cleared the cache. I tend to prime the cache before running tests (run the query once so that I know the required results are in the...

  • RE: Like Operator.

    GilaMonster (12/20/2007)


    I'll try it out in 2005, see if the results are different.

    Just for the heck of it I tried the following against a table with ~800000 rows and a...

  • RE: Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionas question

    Grant Fritchey (1/30/2008)


    DonaldW (1/30/2008)


    At the last PASS Summit Gert Drapers said that they are going to try to get a data dictionary feature into the next release of Power Tools.

    That...

  • RE: How can I catch a blank column value on SP input?

    sg2000 (1/29/2008)


    Thanks jeremy for the suggestion. Following your suggestion, I used

    IF (@Name IS NULL OR @Name = '')

    and found it working well.

    sg2000

    If you want to add a further...

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