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  • RE: Help with SQL update

    Jpotucek (12/28/2012)


    My criteria is I was given a list of 1200 TS_FA_NUM values and they all have to be changed from TS_ACTIVEINACTIVE = 0 to TS_ACTIVEINACTIVE = 1

    Sounds like I...

    Roland Alexander 
    The Monday Morning DBA 
    There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer

  • RE: Help with SQL update

    Which 1200? Any 1200? Or 1200 selected on some criteria?

    Roland Alexander 
    The Monday Morning DBA 
    There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer

  • RE: NOT EXISTS - tortoise or horse ?

    karthik M (12/26/2012)


    All,

    I have often worked on the below requirement.

    There are two tables and fetch the record from TableA which doesn't exists in TableB.

    I use NOTEXISTS or else I use...

    Roland Alexander 
    The Monday Morning DBA 
    There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer

  • RE: How to get a count of duplicate records

    🙂

    Roland Alexander 
    The Monday Morning DBA 
    There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer

  • RE: How to get a count of duplicate records

    jillk (12/19/2012)


    I have a query that returns a duplicate account listing:

    SELECT Account

    FROM Account_Table

    WHERE Account IN

    (

    SELECT Account

    FROM Account_Table

    GROUP BY Account

    ...

    Roland Alexander 
    The Monday Morning DBA 
    There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer

  • RE: OR in JOIN condition

    Yes, that will make for a slow-running query. Try writing two separate queries, one to check for each condition, then UNION ALL to combine the records.

    Roland Alexander 
    The Monday Morning DBA 
    There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer

  • RE: Importing Text files

    My advice would be to stick with SSIS. For someone with an Access background, SSIS would be a much friendlier road to travel than bcp. Far simpler to map your...

    Roland Alexander 
    The Monday Morning DBA 
    There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer

  • RE: Which table join should I use

    ron.grace (12/10/2012)


    Roland,

    That worked a treat, many thanks, I was obviously over complicating things

    LOL! I've outsmarted myself many times, I know what you mean!

    Roland Alexander 
    The Monday Morning DBA 
    There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer

  • RE: Which table join should I use

    ron.grace (12/10/2012)


    I've got 2 tables Order & Despatch and I'm trying to add some keys to the tables. The OrderNo field is a primary key in Order and a foreign...

    Roland Alexander 
    The Monday Morning DBA 
    There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer

  • RE: Alter statement

    ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT [constraint_name] DEFAULT [default value] FOR [column]

    Roland Alexander 
    The Monday Morning DBA 
    There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer

  • RE: Dynamic SQL variable questions

    You bet. An extra pair of eyes never hurts...that's why I love code reviews!

    Roland Alexander 
    The Monday Morning DBA 
    There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer

  • RE: Dynamic SQL variable questions

    Take away the extra apostrophes before and after the variable:

    SET @Query = N'

    INSERT INTO dev.dbo.ServerDetails ([MachineName] , [ServerName], [Instance], [Edition], [ProductLevel], [ProductVersion],[COLLATION], [IsClustered], [IsFullTextInstalled] , [IsIntegratedSecurityOnly])

    SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET(''SQLNCLI'', ''Server='...

    Roland Alexander 
    The Monday Morning DBA 
    There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer

  • RE: Defaults

    Hugo Kornelis (11/15/2012)


    Roland Alexander STL (11/15/2012)


    No, I don't believe I'm confused. Have a look at the list at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143729.aspx where you'll find this entry:

    Use of DEFAULT keyword as default value.

    ...

    Roland Alexander 
    The Monday Morning DBA 
    There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer

  • RE: Defaults

    Hugo Kornelis (11/15/2012)


    Roland Alexander STL (11/15/2012)


    We ought to make note here that DEFAULT has been deprecated in an unspecified future version of SQL Server, so don't get too attached to...

    Roland Alexander 
    The Monday Morning DBA 
    There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer

  • RE: Defaults

    Hugo Kornelis (11/15/2012)


    Roland Alexander STL (11/15/2012)


    We ought to make note here that DEFAULT has been deprecated in an unspecified future version of SQL Server, so don't get too attached to...

    Roland Alexander 
    The Monday Morning DBA 
    There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer

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