I would handle it by specifying the column list in the procedure and aliasing the column names so I had the same list. If there are a different number...

Thanks for posting your solution.

You could use profiler to create a trace filtering on that tables object_id. Save the trace results to a table and then query looking for when that column is...

Because I have not had to work on VLDB's and restores never took more than about 15 minutes I always did full backups and restores.

You might want to look into...

meichner (7/17/2008)

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I would take a slightly different approach. I would create one stored procedure that returns all of the fields from the table. I would then do one of the...

benlatham (7/17/2008)

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Hi

Does anyone know how I would include a hyperlink on a drillthrough report for the user to navigate back to the original report? I want to duplicate the...

I'm not sure this is a definitive answer, but I would venture to guess that it does not include trailing spaces because in fixed length character columns SQL Server pads...

NuJoizey (7/17/2008)

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Todd,

hey, thanks so much for your response, this got me a step closer - Disabling anonymous does indeed solve the immediate problem of my app not seeming to...

If you are using SQL Express with Advanced Data Services to develop your reports you are developing your reports in the SQL 2005 format which is different than the SQL...

Pragmatic Works has a free custom SSIS component called File Properties Task where you can pass the file path variable obtained in the for each loop and one of the...

The syntax is:

Grant View Definition on [object] to [role]

or for a schema (will give rights to every object in the schema):

GRANT VIEW DEFINITION ON SCHEMA::[schema_name] TO [role]

Lester has a good solution. A key point is to remember to use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views as they are an ANSI standard so should not go away in the...

It won't fail as SSIS does things on a row by row basis so you do not need to have 200GB of storage on the machine where the package is...

Christian Buettner (7/16/2008)

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Depending on what you are trying to achieve you can also use LIKE '_%'.

This will exclude NULLs an empty strings '' (but not the single space strings '...

Jeffrey Williams (7/16/2008)

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Here are a few examples:

SELECT dateadd(month, datediff(month, 0, getdate()), 0)

,dateadd(month, datediff(month, -1, getdate()), -1)

,dateadd(month, datediff(month, 0, getdate()) - 1, 0)

,dateadd(month, datediff(month, -1, getdate()) - 1, -1)

,dateadd(month,...