if the fields are indexed, then technically the CHAR fields would take up more space, which would mean less data per page of memory; more data per page is better,...

sorry about the confusion.

in my sample, these two tables are the same: #TESTDATA = gdb_01_4_test

i didn't have the data, so i had to create it to confirm that my sample...

there was a post today referencing "Death By SQL", where the user slowly kills himself by separating date and time, when they can be stored in the same field....I think...

SELECT DISTINCT PolicyNumber

from GE_Transaction

WHERE Status='A' AND MonthReported < DATEADD(year,10,EffectiveDate)

i reversed the argument;

i don't know that MonthReported is a valid date, you'll have to evaluate with data to see if...

SELECT DISTINCT POLICYNUMBER WHERE STATUS='A' AND MonthReported < DATEADD(year,EffectiveDate,10)

based on your example data, I assumed that Flight 38 for example might have more records added at any time; because of that, if I created another table with the...

i believe you need to create a temp table to capture teh results of the stored proc as one step, and then update from the temp table.

alternatively, you might be...

I'm suprised noone mentioned the regular expression extended stored procedures:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/mcoles/sql2000dbatoolkitpart2.asp

with that you can search, select or replace things patterns like this ; it's a bit easier than looping thru...

Ronald is right, in Enterprise Manager, it appears that you can edit an existing, but if you profile the database, you will see it is really dropping the constraint, and...

glad it helped, RSingh;

i was thinking along those same lines awaiting your reply...maybe some indexes are in the filegroup, but not the objects they index;

way to go!

the sql below might help; it identifies objects and the filegroup they belong to;maybe something is not moved off of the filegroup yet?

select sysobjects.name as TableName,

      s.groupname as Data_located_on_filegroup

just use the table to store the raw data, and use a VIEW to total up the information. if you try and store totals in the same row as the...

I took his question to mean if you created a datatable in vb.NET, then inserted data into it, how can you create the table on SQL server, and then insert...

if this is for oracle, here is a function in oracle syntax that returns the age:

CREATE

OR REPLACE FUNCTION

if you do not have SELECT privileges to the table, you cannot get the data into a temp table for manipulation.  there is no work around.

if you only have SELECT...