1. Don't use cursors. DO everyting in a single set based statement

2. Set up indexes.

3. If you do corelated INSERT/UPDATE on more than 1 table use transactions

But actually the wole...

Sriram, I'm afraid, value '7104' is not given, you must to retrive duplicated values from the string inside your script.

And it may be not a single duplication in the string....

SELECT *

INTO #deleted

FROM deleted

-- you may wish to work out data some way here, e.g. delete duplications, apply trims for char values, etc.

SELECT @tcolname = ('SELECT '+@colname+' FROM #deleted')

EXEC (@tcolname)

There is no data model. Neither yours nor anybody's else. Noone just biult one.

I answered your question, you just did not bother to read.

Lets try again:

convert string into single column table...

You should not.

What you have is not data and storage of it is not a database.

To make it data convert all those strings into a column in some table (you...

When you execute command EXEC master..XP_CMDSHELL 'DIR ....\*.*' in query analyzer you run DIR from CMD shell opened from Server, when you execute DIR command in CMD window you must have opened it...

Guys, there is a rule - if it becomes too complex then you've chosen wrong direction.

SELECT BirthDate,

CASE

WHEN DATEADD(YY, DATEDIFF(YY, BirthDate, GETDATE()),...

Jeff, make @Word2Find = 'what' and run it.

It cannot find "what" because there is no space after it.

Same problem with dots, commas, etc.

Don't tell me about what they send.

I deal with it every day.

But it does not mean I let this mess into my database....

And this "Header" row will eventually end up at the end of the file or somwhere betwen the lines.

Does not matter.

Whatever whoever sends to you turn it into actual data when INSERT, not when SELECT.

If you (with your code) cannot understand how to convert this s..t they sent...

Hope it will help:

declare @d TABLE (BirthDate datetime)

INSERT INTO @d (BirthDate)

SELECT '1955-10-25'

UNION

SELECT '1960-11-25'

UNION

SELECT '1965-11-05'

UNION

SELECT '1970-11-15'

UNION

SELECT '1970-12-20'

UNION

SELECT '1970-11-01'

UNION

SELECT '1970-10-31'

UNION

SELECT '1970-11-30'

SELECT BirthDate, DATEADD(YY, DATEDIFF(YY, BirthDate, GETDATE()), BirthDate) NextBirthday

FROM @d

Which wizard?

Jeff,

I did not ask about born name of Pele.

Bill,

All he needs to do is:

1) store all parts of names in database separately;

2)...

What do you mean by "var tables have more chache enables than a temporal table"?