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Windows Cyrillic, Code Page 1251 contains MACEDONIAN letters DIFFERENT than GREEK letters

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In fact using sp_OACreate and its sp_OA*** brothers

can be very dangerous.

The second argument that you can use against your developers,

is that in YUKON sp_OA*** procedures will not exist.

I'm developer so...

You can see Sql books online, there is some examples like this:

Use WHERE and LIKE syntax with Unicode data

This example uses the WHERE clause to retrieve the contact name, telephone,...

Use OSQL Utility

DECLARE @CurrentDate VARCHAR(8) -- YYYYMMDD

DECLARE @cmd VARCHAR(256)

SET @CurrentDate = CONVERT(VARCHAR(8),DATEADD(DAY,0,GETDATE()),112)

SET @cmd =

'osql -E -SSrvName -Q "EXEC "DB..Proc" -o c:\OutFile' PLUS @CurrentDate PLUS '.txt'

EXEC ...

You can use SQLXMLBulkLoad (SQLXML3.0 SP1) in this way

first you have to create table

Customer (CustomerId int,CompanyName varchar,City varchar)

Insertcustomers.vbs -- vb script

Set objBL = CreateObject("SQLXMLBulkLoad.SQLXMLBulkLoad.3.0")

objBL.ConnectionString = "provider=SQLOLEDB.1;data source=MyServer;database=MyDatabase;uid=sa;pwd=pass"

objBL.ErrorLogFile =...

You can use SQLXMLBulkLoad (SQLXML3.0 SP1) in this way

first you have to create table

Customer (CustomerId int,CompanyName varchar,City varchar)

Insertcustomers.vbs -- vb script

Set objBL = CreateObject("SQLXMLBulkLoad.SQLXMLBulkLoad.3.0")

objBL.ConnectionString = "provider=SQLOLEDB.1;data source=MyServer;database=MyDatabase;uid=sa;pwd=pass"

objBL.ErrorLogFile =...

Nice Thing

This is similar procedure for starting trace

that I'm using in daily processing.

CREATE PROCEDURE sp_startTrace

AS

DECLARE @TraceIdOut INT

DECLARE @FolderTracenvarchar(128)

DECLARE @FileTraceLikenvarchar(128)

DECLARE @FileTracenvarchar(128)

SELECT @FolderTrace = 'C:\FolderTrace\'

SET @FileTraceLike = @FolderTrace + 'Trace%'

IF

(select count(*)...