as i understand it, when a linked server is created between two 2005/08 servers, the linked server will always use the native client SQLNCLI provider instead of SQLOLEDB; if you...

sorry bumble-read your post...my dyslexia kicked in and i thought i only saw CASE WHEN A.destroyed = 0 as the first case condition.

add these columns to your SQL:

SUM(CASE WHEN A.destroyed = 0 AND A.Retrieved = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS INCOUNT,

SUM(CASE WHEN A.destroyed = 0 AND A.Retrieved = 1 THEN...

you'll want to use the metadata to generate the scripts for you;

something like this:

SELECT

'UPDATE ' + SYSOBJECTS.NAME + ' SET ' + SYSCOLUMNS.NAME +...

brennendeliebe05 (6/9/2009)

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Hello everybody;

I am here again, I want to copy a table Time.dbo from my DB WorksBI to a DB BusinessIntelligence, both are int he same machine and server.

can help...

i believe you might be looking for the behavior of a full text index.

With a full text index, you can do WHERE CONTAINS(columnname,'AB'), and it only does "whole word" matching,...

there's a lot of ways to do this;

the most basic is simply 3 words: CREATE DATABASE [WHATEVER], where whatever is the database name. when you do that, a copy of...

thanks everyone; RBarryYoung made the light go on when he said "escape" the second minus sign.

Lynn's example works, as well as using a different rule, which in turn uses...

the exact error i got was this:

Msg 513, Level 16, State 0, Line 1

A column insert or update conflicts with a rule imposed by a previous CREATE RULE statement. The...

ok, it looks like two wrongs make a right...NOT combined with [^0-9] ALMOST looks like it works:

CREATE RULE [dbo].[NumericCharsOnly]

AS

@value NOT LIKE '%[^0-9,-+]%'

but the - and + , when...

you didn't give any details, so here's an example that may help you.

a case statement can evaluate more than one item:

SELECT

CASE

WHEN Column1 = 'Approved' AND...

there's gotta be a better way, but this is all i could come up with...it works, but seems overly complicated..i need a nap or something:

select object_name(syscolumns.id) as TableName,syscolumns.name As ColumnName...

no no no...

i mean your procedure sp_AppendToFile. the procedure that calls sp_AppendToFile is not the issue.

sp_AppendTo is incomplete.

your sp_AppendTo is an exact copy of the function i posted, except it...

you are using SQLExpress, which does not come with SS Integration Services.

SLQ Express with Advanced Services, just comes with the management GUI and reporting services.

SQL Server Developer , which is...

good point Wayne; we do the same...when we get multiple FK's in a table as well.

One of the things to point out is how standards like this can help you...