and convert(varchar, a.Date_DT, 120) = convert(varchar, b.Date_DT, 120)

This will find two records if they are in the same...

Steve, thank you for your information.  I had not thought to assign create table permission.  In fact, I think that I had downright forgot about that.

It might work for us. ...

The statement:

document.all['A3'].innerText= objHTTP.responsexml.getElementsByTagName('InputZipCode');

returns a collection of element nodes.  You need to first restrict it to one node. Then you need to get the text for that node.

Try the following from

http://www.devguru.com/technologies/xmldom/quickref/document_getElementsByTagName.html

document.all['A3'].innerText=...

Greg, do you find significant overhead in running the scheduled job or was it rather trivial?  I was thinking of scheduling this to check the table every minute.  So a...

I had experminented setting the user name and password as an argument in the dtsrun command.  The sql statements in the package still ran as the domain login of the...

You have verified that the xml document is going to create a distinct value in the primary key.

You can apply a tablemapping on your data adapter (I assume you have tables with real name MyTable1Name and MyTable2Name: put your names here)

da is your data adapter

da.TableMappings.Add("Table", "MyTable1Name");

da.TableMappings.Add("Table1", "MyTable2Name");

Then...

I have wrapped items in a transaction using execute sql statements.  This post gave me reason to fix some problems.

First, create an executesql task that has a "begin transaction" statement...

Thank you for correcting my error.  I will fix it in the original.

You can set up a transaction.  The ArchiveTable is identical to the main table (no identity) with an Archive_Date.

set transaction isolation level repeatable read

begin tran

declare @refDate datetime

set @refDate = dateadd(month,...

You create a global variable "ImportFileName".

Then in your call to dtsrun you add the following parameter:

dtsrun ....  /A "ImportFileName":8=C:\MyFolder\MyFile.txt"

Then you use a Dynamic Properties task to set the DataSource property...

create trigger myupdatetrigger on tblStudent for update

as

insert into tblstudent_history

select id, record_type from deleted

go

-- I would suggest adding a date field to your history.

-- The "deleted" element is a view...

I don't have access to "Server Management Studio Express," which is the stripped down version of the normal 2005 Server Management Studio.  I don't believe that you can use the...

I think that the nt user will be the nt user running SQL Agent.

That user must be an administrator on the machine (if I understand that right).  You would need...

Every linked table from SQL you want to update in Access must have a primary key index in Access. The table doesn't actually have to have one in SQL Server (your...