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  • RE: Variant Order 2

    Rob Schripsema (12/5/2011)


    Great question. Not what I would have expected....but then, many aspects of SQLVariants are not what I would expect.

    Agreed, it's like opening Pandora's Box. I'm not even...


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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Yeah, I so wanted to go... a shame. Ah well, time to review who made the cut.


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  • RE: SQL Code Help

    drew.allen (12/5/2011)


    CELKO (12/5/2011)


    Your approach to SQL is fundamentally wrong.

    Your approach to SQL training is fundamentally wrong. Without specifics on what you think is fundamentally wrong, why you think it...


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  • RE: update commands on a view inside a transaction

    amos-870870 (12/5/2011)


    Ninja's_RGR'us (12/5/2011)


    amos-870870 (12/5/2011)


    unfortunatly ether/or table that gets updated will remove them from the view.

    I'd still try repeatable reads in a single transaction... just out of curiosity ;-).

    I have not...


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  • RE: Update Trigger for changes to the Primary Key

    Lowell (12/5/2011)


    I'm still wondering how to implement this myself...if the Pk is a foreign key in the child table, won't the FK prevent you from changing the key to a...


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  • RE: converting special charectors to positive or negative numbers

    :blink:

    To confirm, you're in SQL 2000? Also, what is your current import mechanism? DTS, BCP, Bulk?

    EDIT: I removed a number of confusing items I wrote. I really,...


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  • RE: Help with Script Task - Check if file refreshed and return success or failure

    I'd personally approach this utterly differently, but a lot of that comes from the necessity of CYA.

    Archive the file with a different file name using a move. Even a...


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  • RE: Help with hard Sql update

    jshahan (12/5/2011)


    Thank you for the quick response, Craig and I’m also a fan of your posts. I’m with you on the need for the identity column but some of...


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  • RE: Help with hard Sql update

    There's a concern with the premise of this problem. Cadavre's code illustrates the concern nicely. He had to include the identity() field.

    You have no indicators in the original...


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  • RE: Optimize hint has huge implications. Why?

    I was going to get back involved here, but after what appears to have happened over the weekend and this morning, I'll pass.

    Nico, did Ninja use the best phrasing in...


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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (12/5/2011)


    One more reason I'm glad I'm not American...

    The difference Gail is if you WERE American (or working here) you'd be getting paid enough...


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  • RE: update commands on a view inside a transaction

    Ninja's_RGR'us (12/5/2011)


    amos-870870 (12/5/2011)


    Ninja's_RGR'us (12/5/2011)


    amos-870870 (12/5/2011)


    You know what the problem was, I was using references that were outside SQLServerCentral.

    No sure what you mean by this?

    What I mean is SQLServerCentral has a...


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  • RE: problem with stored procedure

    p-nut (12/5/2011)


    Ah yes... 9 to 10. Oops... I still think the best way to do this is to have the columns in the table;

    CREATE TABLE ClientVersion (id int identity(1,1),...


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  • RE: Slow Running Stored Proceudre

    Hm, nice problem setup, and an interesting scenario. I've never seen a difference in 1 row estimation vs. accurate 227000 row estimation NOT make a difference...

    Is the 405000 base...


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  • RE: update commands on a view inside a transaction

    Ninja's_RGR'us (12/5/2011)


    amos-870870 (12/5/2011)


    I do believe this was the first thing I tried, but was under the impression that even in the view I still could not update to tables in...


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