Forum Replies Created

Viewing 15 posts - 14,326 through 14,340 (of 14,953 total)

  • RE: Updating XML doc stored in a Text column

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sure looks like you answered your own question. Have you tried what you proposed and found that it doesn't work as desired?

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
    Property of The Thread

    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

  • RE: Effective unit testing

    The key to unit testing is to run some tests that should work, and then run some that probably shouldn't work.

    For example, insert duplicate key values into a table by...

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
    Property of The Thread

    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

  • RE: OPENQUERY vs. OPENROWSET

    So far as I know, the difference is that OpenQuery will only connect to linked servers, while OpenRowset can connect to anything that ODBC can read, whether it's linked or...

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
    Property of The Thread

    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

  • RE: Florida Database Professionals LinkedIn Group

    I applied to join. Thanks.

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
    Property of The Thread

    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

  • RE: Is a temporary table the way to do this?

    What does sp_UpdateMailingList do? Quite possibly, the whole thing can be turned into a single command that doesn't require a cursor.

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
    Property of The Thread

    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

  • RE: Plz tell me whats the error is ???

    I plugged your error message into Google and what came up was a bunch of stuff about clustering. I didn't read much of it, but that might be a...

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
    Property of The Thread

    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

  • RE: Installing SS2005 on laptop with Vista

    I'm pretty sure XP Home (or whatever the version of XP that isn't "XP Pro" is called - man it's been a long time since I used that, can't even...

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
    Property of The Thread

    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

  • RE: The New MVPs

    Congrats!

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
    Property of The Thread

    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

  • RE: What kind of DBA are you?

    Andrew Watson (4/7/2008)


    I'm going to be self-conscious whenever I talk about work for the rest of the day :unsure:. I know I use both interchangeably, but I can't figure...

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
    Property of The Thread

    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

  • RE: Installing SS2005 on laptop with Vista

    I checked over the weekend, and I don't currently have SSRS installed on my Vista machine (it's at home). If I remember correctly, even if you install IIS on...

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
    Property of The Thread

    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

  • RE: Problem with performance of query,DTS,jobs on SQL server 2005 after migration from 2000

    Instead of concatenating them, do a left outer join on each column, and "where field is null" type statement in the Where clause.

    Might look something like:

    Update JV

    Set Paid_Flag = 1...

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
    Property of The Thread

    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

  • RE: New Column Updates

    I have to agree with SDM. Just because, in general, a clustered index on an alpha field (char, nchar, varchar, nvarchar) is usually a bad idea, doesn't mean it's...

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
    Property of The Thread

    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

  • RE: Query

    People, don't worry about the points for it. You get just as many points (1) for joining the discussion to complain about the answer, as you would for getting...

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
    Property of The Thread

    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

  • RE: Query

    Again with the sloppy question and answer????

    The "dob" field is the wrong field. Might exist in this hypothetical database, but it'll give the wrong rows.

    Also, I'd argue...

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
    Property of The Thread

    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

  • RE: What kind of DBA are you?

    Trader Sam (4/4/2008)


    Sequel for me too...sounds funny when I hear people say 'S-Q-L Server'.

    In my experience it has been non-users that say it spelled out. Now you go and...

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
    Property of The Thread

    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

Viewing 15 posts - 14,326 through 14,340 (of 14,953 total)