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I started off with SQL 6.5 when Enterprise Manager was given the euphenism Enterprise Mangler therefore we always used TRANSACT SQL and explicitly named every constraint.
SQL also creates system indices...
August 15, 2002 at 1:45 am
Sorry about the lateness of this post.
I've found that @@ROWCOUNT gets its knickers in a twist with triggers.
INSERT DestinationTable(Fields)
SELECT Source.Fields
FROM SourceTable
WHERE Some Clause
SELECT @@ROWCOUNT
If DestinationTable has a trigger then @@ROWCOUNT...
August 13, 2002 at 1:52 am
On a related subject, should Int IDENTITY columns be deprecated infavour of GUID columns?
August 1, 2002 at 9:58 am
On the plus side their products tend to aim for usability.
On the downside is that their are some very powerful features in competitors products that I wish Microsoft would implement.
Also,...
July 31, 2002 at 10:19 am
How does ORACLE handle authentication?
July 11, 2002 at 10:15 am
We use WA for an Internet solution where no-one is automatically on the domain. This forces users to login to the internet application.
It is the Windows Group that is...
July 11, 2002 at 3:52 am
What are they using instead of Hungarian?
Considering the battle to get developers to adhere to standards I don't relish the idea of changing just because MS don't feel like it...
July 2, 2002 at 6:08 am
Thanks, but my SQL2K box uses OPENROWSET with parameters and it works.
My extracted code will not work even if I hard code the values of the parameters.
I've had to get...
July 2, 2002 at 4:53 am
I haven't read this particular book, but my comment is that a book from a different discipline can provide a useful perspective that is applicable to the SQL discipline.
For example,...
July 2, 2002 at 3:30 am
I've done it using an ADO Stream object. See Wrox Press ADO 2.6 Programmer's Reference.
Once you have done it for one sort of file then you can do it...
July 1, 2002 at 1:57 am
Yes, good ideas here.
Anything that makes old code easy to read gets my vote.
Has anyone used sp_addextendedproperty to help comment objects within your databases?
July 1, 2002 at 1:45 am
Thanks Andy,
Using the -SubscriberLogin [mylogin] -SubscriberPassword [mypassword]in the distributor agent sorted it.
I don't know why it didn't work before, but it works OK now.
June 10, 2002 at 3:21 am
I've been having similar problems with replication since changing the SA password.
I changed the password on both the Publisher/Distributor and on the Subscriber.
Both have exactly the same password.
The Distributor job...
June 7, 2002 at 1:10 pm
The results are very US biased.
In the UK there are a lot of jobs advertised for DBA's and one of the questions employers ask is "Can you do stored procedures"....
June 6, 2002 at 3:06 am
Warm and Fuzzy!!!!!
That describes sales pitches and user specs.
It gives me a warm glow to remember that there is only so much to cock up in 256Kb RAM or a...
May 27, 2002 at 7:13 am
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