declare @sDate1 datetime

declare @sqlstring varchar(1000)

declare @ColName varchar(100)

set @sDate1 = '09/11/2005'

set @ColName = [Mick]

set @sqlstring = 'select @sVar = ' + @ColName + '

from table1

where [date] = @sDate1'

sp_executesql @sqlstring,N'@sDate1 datetime, @sVar...

Your going to have to perform manipulation to the date string application side prior to sending the xml to sql server.

The value you have does not work.

select convert(datetime,'2003-09-21T00:00:00.0000000+01:00')

This does works

select...

Create an inline function

-- =============================================

-- Create scalar function (FN)

-- =============================================

IF EXISTS (SELECT *

    FROM   sysobjects

    WHERE  name = N'fn_ConcatStrings')

 DROP FUNCTION fn_ConcatStrings

GO

CREATE FUNCTION fn_ConcatStrings

 (@ID int)

RETURNS varchar(500)

AS

BEGIN

declare @String...

Did anything else change?

Network/firewall changes?

That error is generic, but indicates only a couple things.

username wrong, but you checked that.

Sql server authentication mode windows only, or sql and windows, but you...

What does one of the actual values look like?

I have had this problem when the date was formatted funny, like ddmmyyyy you may have to format the date client side...

Look for Update From.

Update mytable

set col1 = somevalue

From SomeTable

Join mytable on somecol = othercol

please present table, data, and your expected results and someone should be able to help

Please provide more information about your data. But I think this will work.

Create view my_EN_view

as

select ID, Case when Name_EN is null then name_FR else NAME_EN  end as NAME_EN

From MyNameTable

Create view...

I don't know what you mean by timeout for looking at current activities.

Basically it amounts to Enterprise manager was not really built to do what your trying to do, I...

I'm not sure what your trying to do, but look in books online under create trigger, it describes a way to use columns updated with a bitwise to...

I do not recall this, What are you trying to do?

Declare @String varchar(8000)

set @String = ''

Select @String = @String + mycolumn + ','

from Mytable

Something like this?

Give this a read

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/yShlafman/thebestkeptsecretaboutsqlqueryanalyzer.asp

Medication is the parent in your xml string and does not have a value to outpt as a column in your recordset. This will return you all the info in...

To get the results the way you want you;ll need to union.

select Yr, sum(Case when AG between 1 and 20 then Total end) as 'Total', '1-20' as GRP

from testtable

group by...

Interesting, This article is the third item in the list on the home page.

Give er a read.

cheers

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/dasanka/callingcomfromtsql.asp

Size of db is reported using this system stored procedure

sp_helpdb

There are several ways to shrink a db, check books online for

DBCC SHRINKDATABASE

dbcc shrinkfile

A log file is an integral part...