the previous link was a 20+ page forum discussion here on SSC;When I used the Google tool, it did not find the thread; I grabbed what items I thought were...

maybe I'm missing something, but i do not see any reason for the looping construction to be in your procedure(which is the reason it is slow)

it looks like you load...

SELECT *

FROM CustomerMapping_Stage

LEFT OUTER JOIN CustomerMapping

ON CustomerMapping_Stage.ClientNo = CustomerMapping.ClientNo

AND CustomerMapping_Stage.Customer= CustomerMapping.Customer

--this finds what is NT in CustomerMapping YET:

--AND CustomerMapping.PKid IS NULL

martina.kenny (11/4/2008)

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The table structures are as...

check the first link again, I re-edited it; the second link should be fine as well. they just open as a text file; the script is beyond the size limit...

just realized that script does not handle things like varchar(max) gracefully.

here is a link to a 2005 version:

db_documentation_in_html_script_enhanced2005.txt

i got what you are looking for;

there was a script submission that someone made; It creates an HTML document, which you just save and view.

I've enhanced it slightly, and you...

you can try the isnumeric function:

WHERE ISNUMERIC(SOMEVARCHAR) = 1

but as others will tell you, it's not 100% reliable, because of the way it is structured; for exampel

select isnumeric('1E2')

select isnumeric('1d2')

all...

you need to change the isnsert so that it has your objnum in it, typcially by joining to the right table.

for example, if you have a lookup table that has...

in my experience, when the same query doesn't run right on two different servers, i check two items first thing: statistics and parameter sniffing.

statistics on one server might be up...

ok here's an example for you to play with to understand the concept:

create the two tables, and select from the two tables after every step;

this example says if columns 3,4,5,6,7...

all i meant was you are joining lots of tables in this query....if any two of the tables have a column named PARNT then you will get an error that...

first thing i notice is you declared 43 variables, but only use one of them; i guess there's more to this than you pasted?

next a minor thing is that your...

you could easily do this automatically in a trigger, especially by using the new COLUMNS_UPDATED() function that exists for triggers in SQL2005; if a change occurs, you could have a...

if your dev machine is running SQL Express or SQL Express Advanced, SQl Server Agenct does not exist; it's not part of the featureset, and i suspect that is what...

aw come on, you know what i mean...Dev is limited to a max of 10 connections, instead of limited only by memory in the full version, a couple of...