i can think of two important issues right now, aside from all the others raised.... how could you do a partial recovery? supposed you need to restore a backup from...

oops don't crosspost. they handy recent posts option allows everyone to monitor all the forums, no need to place the same question in multiple places.

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I don't know if this will help, but the big_int data type is 8 bytes in size, si it should be bign enough to hold the value; you probably already...

if you could post the DDL for the table, and change the sample records to insert statements, we could help better; there's just no way to sort thru that copy...

in this case, you need to join the main table on itself.

in order to do that, you need to use at least one alias; here's an example based on your...

i don't envy you on the backup retore side of your job, but at the same time i do envy the extra large db features;

I'd love the opportunity to learn...

Bad...

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I'd use something like Lowell has to generate a script. Be sure it's hitting the tables that you really need. Last thing you want to do...

you could loop thru syscolumns and find all the varchars and such, and build a sql statement to run:

select 'UPDATE ' + object_name(id) + ' SET ' + name +...

depends on what you mean by empty...chances are , it already is null, but it depends on the data.

does empty mean an empty string?

SELECT * from sometable WHERE somecol=''

in...

you are correct, simply run the installation, but there is a caveat: Standard and Enterprise versions can only be installed on Server Version of operating systems...Win 2000 Server, Windows 2003.

If...

can you post the trigger you are using for SQL2005? Also, could it be that you changed the trigger to After insert or something on 2005, when it was...

char 13 is a Carriage Return (vbCr) also known as

char 10 is a Line Feed (vbLf) also known as \r (i think)

in most PC based files, you'll find vbCrLf...

much more likely to be a DNS issue i would think; since it appears to happen once in a while, and not 100% of the time, I'd venture the guess...

the trick is to group by portions of the account number.

this produces the results you were looking for:

CREATE TABLE #Accounts (AccountNumber varchar(30), ParentAccountNumber varchar(30) )

insert into #Accounts(AccountNumber ,ParentAccountNumber)

SELECT '100-000-000',NULL ...