i would probably tackle it with a scheduled job, or in a service broker fired on database restore or database creation.

it depends on what exactly you are trying to do,...

you can use a case statement to return a specific column value based ont heparameter passed:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ExRates](

[ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,

[ratedate] [date] NULL,

[USD]...

here's two examples of getting monday or friday of the current week.

--Monday of the Current Week

select DATEADD(wk, DATEDIFF(wk,0,getdate()), 0)

--Friday of the Current Week

select dateadd(dd,4,DATEADD(wk, DATEDIFF(wk,0,getdate()), 0))

from there. you can modify...

easy peasy:

CREATE SYNONYM MailView FOR msdb.dbo.sysmail_allitems

select * from MailView

* note a synonym must point to an object.

so you cannot try to make it part of a name, like getting...

table alias meaning synonym? or table alias in the middle of a SQL statement?

here's my other proc: note that it "toggles" the setting from single user to multi user for multiple calls;

that way if i need exclusive access, i can get it do...

SQLKnowItAll (6/14/2012)

Lowell, in what cases do you use this? For the operation of restoring a database, I would prefer to use the

ALTER DATABASE DatabseName

SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE

GO because of...

can you give us the CREATE TABLE definition of dbo.ExRates and a few sample rows?

i suspect you could do this with a pivot, but i'd have to see the table...

here's something i use a lot;

it's just a proc that cursors thru all the spids for a given database name;

sp_kill SandBox would kill all spids attached to the database, except...

you'd have to explain the rules. for example, if i have a "score" of 5, do i have 5...

well, sql express does not allow remote connections by default...did you explicitly change that?

can you connect to that server via SSMS from a machine that is not the server itself?

your...

yes that is correct; because i'm using a specific delimiter, no format file is needed.

format files are useful when you have stuff like fixed width files or quote delimited...

i use a special delimiter that I know will not exist in theactual data;

here's my classic example,w hich i use to export html a lot...that always contains a ton of...

Using SELECT TOP ....ORDER BY NEWID() is probably the most popular way to get randomized results

SELECT TOP 5 *

FROM dbo.tblLottery

ORDER BY NEWID()

a neat trick with the PARSENAME function, which is used to chop up object names like ServerName.DatabaseName.SchemaName.ObjectName:

--Results:

/*

ServerName Instance

----------- --------

MyServer SQL2005

*/

SELECT

PARSENAME(Replace(instancename,'\','.'),2) AS ServerName,

PARSENAME(Replace(instancename,'\','.'),1) AS Instance

from(SELECT 'MyServer\SQL2005' AS...