Well, if all you are doing is SELECT then I would guess that the offending column in one of the tables in the VIEW is NOT NULLable.

When the UNION operation...

I could be getting mixed up with Clustered Indexes here but I thought a primary key had an affect on the maintenance of other indices. something to do with...

Anything is possible given time and money.

There are probably ActiveX controls out there that will do exactly what you want.

I would not feel comfortable letting users fire off queries without...

Be very sure that you are in the correct database when you run this.

DECLARE @sObjectName NVARCHAR(128)

--Loop through all table objects.

SET@sObjectName = ''

WHILE@sObjectName IS NOT NULL

BEGIN

SELECT@sObjectName = MIN ( Name )

FROMSysObjects

WHEREType='U'...

Does your stored procedure depend on a view?

If the structure of the underlying tables for a view alter then the view can get confused as to which columns to retrieve....

SQL seems to handle it without any problems

Try select CAST(0xF43C2 AS INT)

Firstly, we always call stored procedures from our ColdFusion Apps

If in any doubt at all we pass the dates into the procs as varchars but in a known format. ...

When you say modified I presume that you mean structure rather than data? That is a column has been added/deleted from a table rather than a new record added?

There...

What is the login account for the service?

Is it the same as the MSSQLSERVER login account?

If not:

Does it have logon as service rights?

Does it have suitable permissions to run the...

I have not come across this one before but I would guess that the confusion is caused by the source and target machines being set to different locales

British Date DMY

American...

MSDE is a cut down version of SQL Server without any front end tools. Maximum database size is 2GB and max ram is 2GB.

If you are talking about small,...

If you use EM you can cause locking problems if other users are connected.

Unless you are talking millions of records I find that if I need manual updates I export...

Don't forget you need suitable permissions on the SQL2000 box to do this.

You may have read/write access to tables but DDL statements such as CREATE, ALTER and DROP may not...

I'm not suggesting we should be just database geeks or stand Canute like before the .NET tide.

I'm facing a situation where I have inheritted a mission critical system that was...

C:\WINNT\system32\os2 ?????????

Look in the C:\WINNT\system32\os2\DLL folder and see a DLL called doscalls.dll

Write out a million times "I must not be cynical".

You know morale is low when the company does a...