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  • RE: Excel Import using DTS

    Any import will fail if someone has the sheet open... in my opinion, best way to do this is to make a macro on the spreadsheet to export the correct...

  • RE: More junk with dates

    David,

    "Dropping the time" should be done on the display side of things... not on the import side of things. Reason being is that the only way you can truly...

  • RE: Problem with UDF

    But I am still curious as to why my UDF didn't work.

    Your UDF works... but think about it... what do you get when you concatenate a NULL with...

  • RE: Problem with UDF

    Just a personal opinion...

    I think you may be trying to do too much in a UDF. I think the UDF should do nothing but find the number you're looking...

  • RE: Multiple values on y-axis?

    The picture of what you wanted in your first post is not visible.

    Layout some text on the next post that depicts the format that you would like. Use the...

  • RE: extract yesterdays info without failures.

    I'm thinking this is wrong...

    SELECT * FROM IPGDB..SHPHST

    WHERE SIDATE > '2007-10-16'

    AND SIDATE <= '2007-10-17'

    Should be...

    SELECT * FROM IPGDB..SHPHST

    WHERE SIDATE >= '2007-10-16'

    AND SIDATE < '2007-10-17'

    Other than that, your transaction is pretty...

  • RE: Formatting the date

    Kenneth Wilhelmsson (10/26/2007)


    Actually, there's nothing incorrect about any of these.

    SQL Server is very obedient and sorts exactly as asked to..

    ...if that wasn't exactly what one intended, is another matter..

    The 'fault'...

  • RE: Pulling Strings from larger string.

    How would you like to import 5 million rows in about a minute? Post, say, 100 rows of data as an attachment and I'll show you how to build...

  • RE: Sequential Update

    Roger that...

  • RE: convert from MM/DD/YYYY to YYYYMMDD

    bharani (10/23/2007)


    ya, but my team want that to be an int value...

    Your team is absolutely wrong... Peter Larson has a good viable solution... storing any date or time as other...

  • RE: Clarity vs Speed

    Heh... no matter how you swing it, this whole thing is RBAR... if it's for a GUI single row proc... no problem... if it even comes near a batch, big...

  • RE: Editorial control on columnists

    Heh... the only thing I might disagee with is you calling Celko "smart" 😉

  • RE: Unstring text field?

    Bob Bridges (10/24/2007)


    Jeff,

    You got me on the right track... the problem is in the "SET @col" statement. I had

    SET @col = 'Part2.Part1'

    What I didn't realize is that the "Part2"...

  • RE: Sequential Update

    MrPoleCat,

    Would you be kind enought to test this on your SQL Server 7? Thank you, Sir...

    --===== If the test table already exists, drop it

    IF...

  • RE: Formatting the date

    Greg Snidow (10/26/2007)


    Well, I can't replicate it, but I know I had an issue with it before. Maybe I'm just crazy.

    No, not crazy... both of the following will order...

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