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  • Reply To: unable to install SQL Server 2014

    You probably don't want to publicly expose your email address; bots do scan everything on the internet, and they will sell that address onto mailing lists.

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: No answer from answers.microsoft.com on this problem yet...

    crow1969 wrote:

    My first thought is that the Z:\ drive is a user mapped drive, which the server has no access to.  Can you use the fully qualified name (\\server\share\folder\filename)?

    And when...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: date yyyy-dd-mm in SQL 2016?

    datsun wrote:

    What is strange is that why the dash makes a difference in as yyyy-mm-dd to yyyymmdd. Is this not considered an issue with date handling in MS-SQL?

    It's specifically a...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: date yyyy-dd-mm in SQL 2016?

    Jonathan AC Roberts wrote:

    Thom A wrote:

    Languages are there for a reason, and they do have impacts on  "simple" things such as the date here. The important part is that you code appropriately and...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: date yyyy-dd-mm in SQL 2016?

    Jonathan AC Roberts wrote:

    Well that would make me ask: what is the point of having a language setting? .

    Not everyone speaks English. If every error message was in English, and things...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: eroor in value datetime

    You're using the format yyyy-MM-dd and the datetime datatype. For datetime that format is ambiguous and is interpreted differently depending on the langauge. The only formats, regardless of language and...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: date yyyy-dd-mm in SQL 2016?

    Jonathan AC Roberts wrote:

    I would just change the language of the login to from British to English to fix it though.

    Is that really the solution? Applications, and code, should be language ambiguous....

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: date yyyy-dd-mm in SQL 2016?

    yyyy-MM-dd didn't work in 2008 either, if the data type was datetime. It will be interpreted as yyyy-dd-MM for datetime using the British language in both versions. Perhaps you were...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: tsql help

    vsamantha35 wrote:

    Thanks for the pointers for dynamic sql . it has to come from FROM clause.

    Then you need to change from statement from a SET to a SELECT and include...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: Indexing for View Containing UNION

    As you discovered, you can't index a View that has a UNION in it. In truth, if you need this type of design it does indicate a design flaw; if...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: Need help in automating using tsql

    vsamantha35 wrote:

    Thanks for all the inputs.

    What solved your problem here? Rather than just saying "thanks" if you let us know what solution you used it'll help people in the future...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: bcp exporting to txt and wish to keep nulls

    In a text file NULL is provided by the absence of a value. If you have the string "NULL", it no longer has no value, it has a value. If...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: tsql help

    The error appears to be letting you the problem here:

    Msg 207, Level 16, State 1, Line 47

    Invalid column name 'logicalname'.

    In your statement you have '...''' + logicalname + '''...' but...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: How to Get Records dynamically based on filter condition?

    This looks a bit like a homework question. If so, what have you tried so far to solve the problem yourself? What, if you haven't tried, have you researched to...

    Thom~

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  • Reply To: Need help in automating using tsql

    If you already have a process, what's wrong with what you have? It doesn't seem to be that time consuming; run a back up, restore it (on a different server)...

    Thom~

    Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
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