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what is the source of the file...i had an issue before where the source was UNIX based text files, so the terminator is not \n, but another...\r (just Cr) ?...
Lowell
February 19, 2007 at 11:03 am
here's an example i had handy: filename is build with a combination of variables and current time/date.
replace your query where the query in red is below.
declare @outfile varchar(250),
@strCommand...
Lowell
February 16, 2007 at 2:35 pm
hehe... same example, but i beat your post by a whole minute!
great minds and all that.
Lowell
February 16, 2007 at 2:01 pm
in sql server , you can use a calculated column; (not available in oracle...you'd have to create a trigger to do the same thing); note i added logic to watch...
Lowell
February 16, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Eddie thanks; you pointed me on the right track; by using the sp_Oa procs, and a bit of minor modifications to my test dll, i was able to read any...
Lowell
February 16, 2007 at 9:11 am
could it be something as simple as statistics or something?
I had a situation where a developer turned off automatic statistics in his test database, and over time his machine...
Lowell
February 16, 2007 at 5:09 am
check out this recent post:
there's no native way I know of to use TSQL to create the image...the image data is usually handled by an object that can handle a...
Lowell
February 16, 2007 at 4:51 am
check out this recent thread on the same subject:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=5&messageid=333827
a few different examples were given on how to search syscomments, especially how to avoid the rare situation where a tablename...
Lowell
February 16, 2007 at 4:43 am
search for the Split function in the scripts section of SSC; there are several that will do this.
searching for Split in the forums will get you loads of ewxamples as...
Lowell
February 15, 2007 at 11:10 am
someone has posted something similar in the script submissions as well:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/viewscript.asp?scriptid=1584
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Lowell
February 15, 2007 at 6:17 am
somewhere in the report, it is referencing a column that does not exist in the SQL statement returned into the recordset. a valid recordset was returned, and has rows, otherwise...
Lowell
February 15, 2007 at 4:39 am
you typically use ORDER BY new_id() to randomize results:
SELECT top 5 CATEGORY_NAME ,ASSETS_NEEDED_FOR_ASSIGNMENT FROM MYTABLE ORDER BY NEW_ID()
run it multiple times, and you'll see the data is random.
Lowell
February 14, 2007 at 12:55 pm
you should be able to use the object_name function without translating to decimal:
select object_name(0x4319E038)
select object_name(0x60FC61CA)
Lowell
February 14, 2007 at 11:29 am
ok how about this: can you do this to the linked server? using the SELECT ...INTO feature, but make sure the where statement returns no rows, so it creates the...
Lowell
February 14, 2007 at 9:51 am
I think that's my next step.... I was looking for an easy sleazy way to get results from any old DLL, but I think I'll have to slap together an...
Lowell
February 14, 2007 at 9:43 am
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