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  • RE: Error 21335: [SQL-DMO] The new DB File size must be larger than the current size.

    You have to use DBCC SHRINKFILE to reduce a file below its initial allocation.

    USE <your_db_name>

    -- get the file#s / names of all the db's files

    EXEC sp_helpfile

    Then choose the file# or...

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  • RE: Delete, Insert and update in the same query

    Jeff Moden (7/18/2012)


    ScottPletcher (7/17/2012)


    Sounds like RCS (Read-Committed Snapshot) is what you need here.

    Why would that be any better than a simple MERGE?

    It provides continuous availability of the data, with no...

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  • RE: Showing Backup compression one record per Database

    SELECT

    [Database Name],

    [Compression Ratio]

    FROM (

    SELECT

    b.database_name 'Database Name',

    ...

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  • RE: Delete, Insert and update in the same query

    Sounds like RCS (Read-Committed Snapshot) is what you need here.

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  • RE: Optional Parameters in Stored Procedures

    takilroy (7/17/2012)

    My intent is to see if anyone has been able to or knows of a way to create a global constant variable or use a sql function to determine...

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  • RE: Optional Parameters in Stored Procedures

    I really think you're going to drive people crazy trying to follow this because no one else does it.

    Almost universal is to use NULL to mean "no value was passed...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • RE: Optional Parameters in Stored Procedures

    takilroy (7/17/2012)


    Unfortunately, I can't use look up tables because a default value for a parameter MUST be a constant, meaning either a literal value or a @@ constant. So,...

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  • RE: Random space filled varchars

    Again, in theory yes.

    But in the real world that's often difficult to do and takes a lot of time. And often a change later to the code by someone...

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  • RE: Optional Parameters in Stored Procedures

    You can use a lookup table to store default/control values.

    Or, less overhead but more obscure, you can store the default/control values in specific byte positions of CONTEXT_INFO.

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  • RE: What is the equivalent of ORACLE “MONTH_between “ in SQL ?

    I'm not familiar with MONTHS_BETWEEN, but IF it does always use 31 days as a "month" in that function, then you can get the same result from SQL Server using:

    SELECT...

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  • RE: Random space filled varchars

    Michael Valentine Jones (7/16/2012)


    ScottPletcher (7/16/2012)


    SQLKnowItAll (7/16/2012)


    ScottPletcher (7/16/2012)


    Donald Bustell (7/16/2012)

    Database: timetracking

    Column: project varchar(50)

    Questions:

    1. What in the world???

    2. How would I craft a trigger to just RTRIM everything on the way in?

    Thanks

    Donald

    CREATE...

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  • RE: Random space filled varchars

    SQLKnowItAll (7/16/2012)


    ScottPletcher (7/16/2012)


    Donald Bustell (7/16/2012)

    Database: timetracking

    Column: project varchar(50)

    Questions:

    1. What in the world???

    2. How would I craft a trigger to just RTRIM everything on the way in?

    Thanks

    Donald

    CREATE TRIGGER dbo.project_trg_ins

    ON dbo.project

    AFTER INSERT

    AS

    UPDATE...

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  • RE: Need T-SQL Help on Aggregate/Subquery w/my own "labels"

    Something like below should do it:

    SELECT

    CASE WHEN backup_month IS NULL THEN 'ALL'

    ELSE LEFT(DATENAME(MONTH, backup_month), 3) END AS...

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  • RE: Random space filled varchars

    Donald Bustell (7/16/2012)

    Database: timetracking

    Column: project varchar(50)

    Questions:

    1. What in the world???

    2. How would I craft a trigger to just RTRIM everything on the way in?

    Thanks

    Donald

    CREATE TRIGGER dbo.project_trg_ins

    ON dbo.project

    AFTER INSERT

    AS

    UPDATE p

    SET

    ...

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  • RE: FROM clause challenge

    JayWinter (7/12/2012)


    In this case SKU and UPC are the same and therefore its usage is correct. However my challenge is that there may be more than 1 record that meets...

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