As i understand it, the database is it's own self contained unit, and doesn't have info about other instances that exist;

There's a few metadata functions, like  SELECT @@SERVERNAME,@@SERVICENAME,@@VERSION ,...

I'm curious as to why you think you need to update the system tables directly anyway. What are you trying to accomplish? there might be a better way to do...

because there is no central source which captures which servers exist, you can't really query it.

you can ask the operating system to poll all the servers that are advertising...

OK, if you look at the procedure, it's pretty much getting two values for each companyId: the sum(moneyamount) and the sum(number of shares)

you can get the same information from a...

the original function did not encode <> symbols as well as quotes and ampersands;

this is a little better; someone critque this function please:

ALTER FUNCTION HTMLEncode(@OriginalText VARCHAR(8000))

RETURNS VARCHAR(8000) 

BEGIN

DECLARE...

ha!

once again, stealing/borrowing Jeff Modens example and running with it, here's a TSQL function:

--===== Create and populate a 100,000 row test table.    

-- Column RowNum has a range of 1...

obviously you can do this on the application side, but not natively in TSQL...looks like you'd need a function.

I bet the .NET  HTMLEncode and HTMLDecode functions would be perfect for...

As you suspect, no there's no surefire way to prevent anyone from connecting to a database and copying the schema, nor the data.  I know you probably spent a lot...

I'm pretty sure \r is the row terminator for unix, and \n is the terminator for pc based text files. I've never used \n and \r together, that would be...

here's an example that i based off of one of Jeff Modens examples...hey I'm learning:

there'sa huge advantage performance wise to use a tally or numbers table.

--Your Sample Table :

CREATE...

you are thinking about it wrong...you should create a new role that has db_datareader writes, and then any additional rights you want toa dd. don't try to change the existing...

oops sorry i skimmed over that part.

SQL server will automatically use all availalble processors. if you had a 4 proc, but licensing for only two, you'd be out of compliance...

there's lots of links on microsoft on this;

licensing is per physical processor, not per virtual processor/core .

If the motherboard has a single socket in it, (if you could afford it)...

Assuming you have SQL server installed on your laptop, you should be able to open Query Analyzer, Press F8, which will open the object browser...find the database>> open the treeview...

won't make any difference as far as databases go.... they are backed up to a specific format for SQL 2005,a dn in a manner backwards compatible with non-service pack-ed 2005...