You set @insertSql statement is trying to concatenate a string and a date, and therefore throws the error.

If you want to build the string then simply do the following

set @insertSql='Insert...

Surely, this is what the MODEL database is for?

I think the great thing about MIDI was that it was a standard when there weren't any standards.

To come up with a replacement for MIDI would be a major achievement, after...

There is an IGNORE_DUP_KEY when creating and index which has to be on a unique index.

If you run an insert statement that adds rows to a table and some of...

I take it you have some performance problems?

If your staging and production database are on the same box then I would use one of the methods you mention.

If the two...

We have just had our first contract tester and I have to say that it has been a very positive experience.

Our QA environment highlighted the need for a change in...

If you can login to one server with the SA password then you can hack into any other SQL Server on the network.

Try sp_addlinkedserver!

Because SA always has id 1 you...

In the majority of cases it works.  In the past year it has failed 15 times on scheduled runs.

It is more the fact that I cannot get any diagnostic information...

NORMALISATION

Normalise when it is practical to do so.  If you have a sales by day of week arrangement then there would be little point in normalising it down to a...

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...