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  • RE: Converting data to wav format

    Sean Lange (5/31/2011)


    Pretty sure this article will provide you with some useful information.

    nice link!

    Lowell


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  • RE: insert row of the data with special character as content in the table

    char(44) is a comma, is that your special character?

    this statement in syntactically correct:

    --the char

    select char(44)

    --an example

    select 'the severity level of the patient or resident' + char(44) + 'injury'

    INSERT INTO [dbo].[Events]

    ([ID]

    ,...

    Lowell


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  • RE: Find out who dropped a table in a db that's in simple mode.

    if not too much time has past, the default trace, which logs DDL events like CREATE ALTER DROP, might still have it:

    Lowell


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  • RE: Generate data from a ramdom combination of temp tables

    ok, an update to random is certainly possible... you were really thin on the actual firstname/lastname table definitions, so i cannot provide you with a perfect example...

    but, based on your...

    Lowell


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  • RE: sys.dm_exec_request showing negative total_elapsed_time

    dbcc timewarp? (inside joke)

    actually, i think the issue is the times are cumulative, and are since the server restarted...

    so it's quite possible if your server is active, or has been...

    Lowell


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  • RE: Generate data from a ramdom combination of temp tables

    this will be boatloads faster and is a single set based query, instead of using a cu..cur... i can't even say the word...it's so evil....

    SELECT top 1000 *

    FROM (

    SELECT

    A.FName,

    B.LName

    FROM FNAMES...

    Lowell


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  • RE: What Events does the Default Trace Capture?

    they way i would recommend is by using the script i contributed in this article:

    Reverse Engineer A Database Trace[/url]

    first find all the traces on your server with SELECT * FROM...

    Lowell


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  • RE: bcp error through xp_cmdshell

    huslayer (6/1/2011)


    Hi,

    I'm having the same problem and Ive sybase client installed, so what path variables you're talking about here and how to change it?

    Thanks

    the %PATH% allows you to do things...

    Lowell


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  • RE: What is the difference between for and after trigger?

    In SQL Server, they are the same thing...in ORACLE and maybe other DBMS systems an AFTER trigger is different.

    The first ingredient in properly employing triggers is to understand the differences...

    Lowell


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  • RE: Data conversions for hours.

    ruff if you only have hours and minutes, how are you going to get a datetime? you need a base/starting point...is that jan 1 of this year, for example?

    you could...

    Lowell


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  • RE: random select

    there's a trick that you can get randomly ordered records by using the NEWID() function...is that what you are after?

    select top 10

    ColumnList

    From SomeTable

    order By NEWID()

    and this?

    in both...

    Lowell


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  • RE: create variable name???

    something like this?

    --SandBox_2011-05-27_10-51-42.bak

    SELECT db_name()

    +'_'

    + REPLACE(

    ...

    Lowell


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  • RE: T-SQL help

    ColdCoffee (5/27/2011)


    Lowell, actually, if u look at the new dataset the OP provided, there are dups.. so, a GROUP BY of managerID with COUNT > 1 wont work on dups.....

    Lowell


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  • RE: T-SQL help

    what i posted works...whether there's more than one manager or not.

    change the query to work on YourTable instead of mySampleData... then tell us what you expected that is different fromt...

    Lowell


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  • RE: find out database name

    physical file? no...you have to ask the SQL isntance what databases it currently has ...usually via a query, though...for example

    SELECT name from master.dbo.sysdatabases

    why don't you want to connect to discover...

    Lowell


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