Steve,

It's your site but the only post that could have generated more flame would be a "do you think you a DBA should take a gun to work to deal...

Has there been a sudden reduction in disk-space on your server?

What size are your log files?  Are they expanding at some point during the backup?

We had a situation where a...

I have had this joyous thing happen on a couple of occassions.

I couldn't see anything wrong so I got the web page to write out the SQL statement that it...

I've had a couple of experiences like this.

I went into the server room to find a layer of smoke covering the top 6 inches of the server room, but no...

No, what I meant was that I started with two tasks.

1. Run the SQL to Access download DTS.

2. Run the copy of the downloaded file from the DB Server to...

From my own experience, if you have very large tables then rather than joining them together for a query you would do use temporary tables to store the results of...

Thanks Kathi,

That's what I did in the end and it seems to have worked OK.

I had a bit of a struggle getting DTS to set the precedence of the copy...

Why not use MSDE?  There is an installation folder somewhere on the MS Office2000 CD.

This way you wouldn't have to butcher your existing code.

I've found that MS Access (running the...

CREATE PROC qryOrderInfo AS

SET NOCOUNT ON

SELECT orders.*,

products.ccode,

products.cname,

products.cprice,

oitems.numitems,

customers.*

FROM customers INNER JOIN orders

ON customers.custID = orders.ocustomerid

INNER JOIN oitems

ON orders.orderid=oitems.orderId

INNER JOIN products

ON oitems.catalogID = products.catalogID

qryOrders

CREATE PROC...

If a field in your recordset object contains data then use ASP to write out the html <input..> tag with a READONLY attribute and VALUE attribute as picked up from...

So basically

if(rs!FirstName){

 write("<input type=text name=txtFirstName READONLY value=\"" & rs!FirstName & "\">");

else

 write("<input type=text name=txtFirstName>"); 

I had something similar and had to define a table as follows:-

DECLARE @tbl TABLE (SerialNumber VARCHAR(20) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED)

I also had a problem when the "default language" on...

Are your databases on different servers?  If they are then check the collations and character sets.

If they are on the same server then why not use a straight select?

If database...

I would do processing like this in one asp page.

The submit button has a value, or if you are using <input="image"....> a hidden field has a suitable value.

The page always...

There are two ways that I would approach this, and both of them involve scripting.

1. Use the generate script option on your objects.

SQL Server will generate the usual MS verbosity...