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  • RE: Transaction and Locking

    As Bru commented on your other post of the same topic, without more information it is hard to give you anything but simple best practices.

    • Keep transactions short
    • Make sure you have...

  • RE: UPDATE question

    IF UPDATE fires if a value is sent for the column even if is has not changed. Try this:

    IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.temp') IS NOT NULL

    BEGIN

    ...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (11/25/2009)


    Ok, I vote this as one of the more ... 'questionable' recommendations I've read here recently.

    As your log file is very huge, and it is required to Truncate the...

  • RE: Giving backup & Restore access to user having read,write permission

    I'm going to agree with Lowell and Jason on this one. Especially the part about not giving restore rights. If they restore over top of the existing database...

  • RE: Using the sp_Send_DBMail SP in msdb Within A Best Practices approach

    Great Jonathan. That's the blog post I've been working on for a couple weeks as I figure it all out:-D

  • RE: Special characters

    I had the general idea right, just the implementation wrong.

    Try this:

    SELECT

    *

    FROM

    #frUser_Copy

    WHERE

    [UserName] LIKE '%[^a-z0-9]%'

    Unless you have a case-sensitive collation then the a-z will work for any alpha characters including...

  • RE: Special characters

    How about something like this:

    /*

    Set up test table and data

    */

    IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.#test') IS NOT NULL

    BEGIN

    DROP TABLE #test

    ...

  • RE: Special characters

    What do you mean by special characters?

  • RE: Encoded text field in Foxpro truncated with no error

    Glad I could help. Had to do that with some columns I was importing in one of my processes, so I had experience with it. Hope you don't...

  • RE: Encoded text field in Foxpro truncated with no error

    I haven't had an issue with the "Deleted" rows in FoxPro using the OLE DB Driver. At least not that I am aware of. I'll have to double...

  • RE: Encoded text field in Foxpro truncated with no error

    I'm with you when it comes to FoxPro. Have you tried doing a conversion at the source? Cast(column as new datatype). This may work. Are you doing...

  • RE: Select "Group By" Statement Does Not WOrk

    I don't really know dreamweaver but it seems to me the issue must have something to do with the way you are passing the date variables. Are you using the...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Thanks for taking the steps to check on Barry, Bob. Once again a sign of community not Forum.

  • RE: DeadLock

    GilaMonster (11/24/2009)


    Can you post the definitions of the two procedures involved (QDB_Central.dbo.uspUpdateOrgUnitAcknowledgements and QDB_Central.dbo.EnqueueMessage), the definitions of the table involved (QueueData) with all of its indexes.

    Why are you using the...

  • RE: inserting a row based on something in another table

    Never having built a scheduling app, I'm not sure what the best way would be. I would likely do something with a structure like this:

    CREATE TABLE [dbo].[calendar](

    [the_date] [datetime] NOT...

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