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  • RE: Conversion failed when converting datetime from character string.

    The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value

    Most common reason is the default language setting on your logins as this...

  • RE: bulk insert vs openrowset

    This is 'a depends' answer.

    You can use either, if all the csv files are of the same format then you could BULK INSERT to a staging table before transfering to...

  • RE: SQL subquery WHERE IN clauses

    giosermao (8/10/2010)


    Please receive my sincere and more than eloquent thanks.

    Your welcome.

    and thank you for yours 🙂

    ...made me think that we need to do things better, I want to change...

  • RE: SQL subquery WHERE IN clauses

    Notwithstanding the comments already made, I believe this is what the translation of your query would look like, ie trying use the IN predicate on a column value.

    SELECT s.StatusID +...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    skcadavre (8/4/2010)


    Jack Corbett (8/4/2010)


    So you know the search procedure you are working on is complex when you can't write up a question about it for the forums because it takes...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (8/3/2010)


    Same here... I just don't want to become an Oracle DBA. 😛

    Shame Jeff,

    I'd love to see the Pork Chop launcher backfire 😉

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - Editor (7/16/2010)


    Kit G (7/16/2010)


    The Dixie Flatline (7/16/2010)


    It was a dark and stormy night....

    As I sat down to write...

    I was quite a sight...

    That you're all wrong and I...

  • RE: Try Catch alters behaviour of existing procedures

    Tom.Thomson (7/15/2010)


    The post from David Burrows was far from the total fail you claim.

    Thanks Tom 🙂

    I think this thread is on the slippery slope to oblivion 😉

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Any ideas you have for bumping up membership, I'm all ears.

    Yeah, pay for my time off work and the flight across the pond and I'll join. 😀

    Wish I could have...

  • RE: Try Catch alters behaviour of existing procedures

    doobya (7/15/2010)


    in VB6 you can control whether a given block of code is resumptive or not

    Not entirely true, it 'depends' on the definition of 'a block of code' and where...

  • RE: Try Catch alters behaviour of existing procedures

    doobya (7/15/2010)


    VB6 is a good example, because you can use.....

    You seem to have a singular point of view in that no one agrees with you.

    On Error Resume Next

    I would like...

  • RE: Try Catch alters behaviour of existing procedures

    Excuse the caps but I am getting frustrated when people are missing such a simple point

    No one is missing the point. TRY...CATCH does exactly what you describe, it catches...

  • RE: Defensive Programming

    Tom.Thomson (7/7/2010)


    David Burrows (7/7/2010)


    However the first programming language I used was CESIL (the version from the late 1960's) 😎

    CESIL? :Wow: Good heavens! And you went into computing after that?...

  • RE: Defensive Programming

    Tom.Thomson (7/6/2010)


    David Burrows (7/6/2010)


    Tom Brown (4/23/2010)


    EDSAC !

    My word - that was ancient history when I started on ICL 1900s

    Not that ancient when I started on an Elliott 803 !!

    Elliot...

  • RE: Defensive Programming

    Tom Brown (4/23/2010)


    EDSAC !

    My word - that was ancient history when I started on ICL 1900s

    Not that ancient when I started on an Elliott 803 !!

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