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  • RE: Page split - 2

    Nice simple question. Thanks for a gentle start to the week.

    Uses an "undocumented" (maybe Paul Randall's blog entries is generally documentation as reliable as BoL, so maybe...

    Tom

  • RE: Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type int.

    vision59 (8/7/2011)


    Tried that to change numeric (16,0) still same error .

    problem passing output as select @student id = @@identity if I coment it it works fine without error. Looking for...

    Tom

  • RE: Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type int.

    Ninja's_RGR'us (8/7/2011)


    vision59 (8/7/2011)


    It is user definition with Uniqueid(numeric(16,0) and passing as output still seeing this error.

    That's well over the limit of an int and even a bigint..

    Well, no. The...

    Tom

  • RE: Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type int.

    I don't think there is a built in datatype called uniqueid in T-SQL, so presumably this is a user defined type. Can you post the type definition, please?

    Tom

  • RE: How to convert this 'dd-mm-yyyy' to 'yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fff' string format?

    Your first problem will be converting data in dd-mm-yyyy format to datetime. I think you will have to call "set language='British' " or "set dateformat = 'dmy' " before...

    Tom

  • RE: What SQL Server Books Do You Recommend

    I don't recommend any books on Sql Server; I don't think I've ever read one, and it wouldn't be ethical to recommend something I've never read. There are several...

    Tom

  • RE: Testing box for sql servers

    bitbucket-25253 (8/7/2011)


    Jeff Moden (8/7/2011)


    sqlfriends (8/5/2011)


    I would like to do some testing on a testing box for installation.

    Our production server will be enterprise version

    For the license issue, can I just use...

    Tom

  • RE: parameter in where clause

    The where clause is very straightforward.

    WHERE (b.WITHDRAW_CODE IS NULL OR @IncludeWithdrawnStudents = 1)

    means that the action will not be done unless either the student is not withdrawn (b.withdraw_code is null)...

    Tom

  • RE: How well do you know MAX?

    john.arnott (8/6/2011)


    Perhaps put off by the apparent snarkiness ("I would hope that most...") of Tom's refutal of my post questioning the use of Float for monetary values, ....

    You must have...

    Tom

  • RE: How well do you know MAX?

    Cliff Jones (8/6/2011)


    SQLkiwi (8/5/2011)


    Tom.Thomson (8/5/2011)


    I would hope that most people realise that in applications where monetary values range from 0.01 units to 90071992547409.92 units (something over nine hundred million million...

    Tom

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    mtillman-921105 (8/5/2011)


    Tom.Thomson (8/5/2011)


    Revenant (8/5/2011)


    bopeavy (8/5/2011)


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    bopeavy (8/5/2011)

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    WEEKEND!

    At Bernie's ------ Darn, here we go again....

    Party ------Yep Pee!

    Beers!

    Wines!!

    Song

    Women!!!

    Why are the last two in the...

    Tom

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jack Corbett (8/5/2011)


    Just so you all know, you can't, at least not without nolock, query a table for row you just deleted within the same transaction. Not saying you...

    Tom

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (8/5/2011)


    GSquared (8/5/2011)


    Stefan Krzywicki (8/5/2011)


    GSquared (8/5/2011)


    Stefan Krzywicki (8/5/2011)


    I posted a question here as I don't want to immediately presume upon my participation in this thread to get answers. However,...

    Tom

  • RE: Read Only Filegroup

    I've done it, but I made very sure I tooke a backup immediately before changing from read only to allow write, and again immediately after changing back. Maybe paranoia...

    Tom

  • RE: How well do you know MAX?

    john.arnott (8/5/2011)


    Cliff Jones (8/5/2011)


    I thought this question was about using approximate data types so got it right for the wrong reason.

    I would hope that most viewers of this understand that...

    Tom

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