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No, but I'm thinking that this is "Death by SQL" of the same magnitude as disabling the automatic recalculation of statistics.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 24, 2005 at 12:08 pm
"Books Online" describes both FLOAT and REAL as follows:
"Approximate number data types for use with floating point numeric data. Floating point data is approximate; not all values in the data...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 24, 2005 at 12:04 pm
If your job only runs on Saturday, then you've done it the most efficient way.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 24, 2005 at 11:52 am
Carl, sometimes there's just no application to be had... SQL is it.
Mark, the reason you are getting the error is that you must either have SA permissions or your DBA...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 22, 2005 at 12:41 am
Very cool, jratwork... I have a similar un-natural aversion to correlated subqueries and I had my doubts when I saw the "<" in the correlated subquery... but I just ran...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 20, 2005 at 5:18 pm
First, this isn't a DB2 forum and not all SQL's are created equal. That, notwithstanding, you say "it didn't work"... if you got an error message, is sure would be...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 19, 2005 at 11:10 pm
"Online AnonProfile" seems a bit paranoid as a "handle" to me
... whatever...
This little ditty should help you in your quest for primary...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 19, 2005 at 10:59 pm
You can't do this with a constraint... you'll need to use a trigger or, maybe, you can also try a "calculated column".
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 19, 2005 at 9:28 pm
Can you run the following?
EXEC Master.dbo.xp_CmdShell 'Dir C:\'
If not, your SYSADMIN got the "religion of security" and disabled access to xp_CmdShell.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 19, 2005 at 9:24 pm
I'm thinking that's part of the reason he wanted to put it in the Master database although, I agree, putting it in the master is not a good idea. It...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 19, 2005 at 9:18 pm
Ehlinger,
As strange as it sounds, if the flat file is VERY consistant, you can actually use BCP or Bulk Insert to transpose the input from the flat file directly into...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 19, 2005 at 9:12 pm
You may have set up the linked server properly but did you set it up with a login using sp_addlinkedsrvlogin ?
That's required unless you allow anonymous logins and that should...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 19, 2005 at 8:56 pm
>Jeff, can you give an example where 'a-f' are considered by ISNUMERIC to be convertable to a number?
Sure Frank,
There's others but these will do... only one out of a-f that...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 19, 2005 at 8:47 pm
>Why can not select cast ( '123'+char(160) as int) work ?
Probably for the same reason that select cast ( '123'+char(12) as int) won't work. The extra special characters just aren't convertable to...
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 19, 2005 at 8:33 pm
Outstanding, Ziga! Thank you for the feedback!
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 19, 2005 at 8:25 pm
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