Why not use SQL profiler?

If the DTS hangs when running within Enterprise Manager then because the display is modal I cannot get to the current activity.

Taskmanager shows 100% CPU utilisation with the sqlserv process...

Basically I created the DTS package using the export data wizard then changed all the "CREATE TABLE" SQL tasks to "DELETE FROM" tasks.

There are twelve database tables.  The wizard creates...

Try updating dtproperties.

If you have the "allow changes to system tables" disabled then, if it is truly a system table, it should give an error message.

It doesn't so it isn't.

BOL says that xtype='U' or type='U' means user table.

The fact that dtProperties is conceptually a system table even though it marked as a user table is neither here nor there.

It...

I think the dtproperties table thing is a bug in SQL Server because it is flagged internally as a user table.

To get around it you have to add and OBJECTPROPERTY(id,'IsMSShipped')=0...

I use something similar when assigning rights to stored procedures, but without the cursor.

I know that this is only an example question but for the scenario listed

a) I would probably...

There are several sorts of test.

• Does the database do what it says it should do in the functional requirement spec.
• Bounds testing.  What happens if I try and enter silly values...

It is a BIT field test.

• BIT 1 = 1
• BIT 2 = 2
• BIT 3 = 4
• BIT 4 = 8
• BIT 5 = 16
• BIT 6 = 32
• BIT 7 = 64

The & means BIT...

I would be curious to know where Sybase ranks along side SQL Server, ORACLE, DB2 etc.

I have colleagues who are using Sybase on a particular project and because both SQL...

Could you give examples of the "notable exceptions"?

I don't like the idea of a huge and radical change to something as fundamental as the SQL.

Don't get me wrong, I'm enthusiastic about SQL2005 its just that the learning...

The thing with consultants is that they charge too much to be ignored.

If the boss hires a consultant and then ignores the consultants advice he may then have to justify...

I forgot to put in one particular class of user, and I can't think of a smart ass name for them other than "Git".

The Git insists that some obscure, hard...

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The software that you are installing has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with this version of windows. Tell me why this is important.

This software...