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all groups > sql server misc > september 2003

advice please: uniqueidentifier vs. identity as PK
Posted by google NO[at]SPAM sigol.co.uk at 9/27/2003 11:17:30 AM
Hi, Hope you can help: I am in the design stage of a database that will increase by around 100,000 records per annum. As well as the main three tables (each containing 100,000 recors) there will be around 12-15 lookup tables, each with between 10 and 50 lookup items. I want to use GUIDs ...more >>


Unique Constraint vs. Unique Index
Posted by jeff_carver NO[at]SPAM hotmail.com at 9/26/2003 9:38:56 AM
I have yet to find a clear explanation of (a) what the difference(s) is/are between a unique constraint and a unique index, and (b) under what conditions one would be preferable over the other. Any takers?...more >>

How do I make this as fast as possible?
Posted by Jim Hubbard at 9/25/2003 1:16:17 AM
I have a test project that I am trying to code to be as fast as possible. The project is a lottery speculation project that uses .Net web services to return an XML recordset. The goal is to accept any number of 5 possible balls, and return a recordset of all past draws and possible draws tha...more >>

Date Format Errors
Posted by des_crocker NO[at]SPAM harcourt.com at 9/23/2003 7:14:01 AM
Dear all, I have an asp web application that submits SQL commands to our SQL 7 database. When trying to run one of the users queries with a date selection where the days > 12 I get the following error: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]The conversion of a char data type to a da...more >>

How can I change the output format of osql for example?
Posted by e9827101 NO[at]SPAM student.tuwien.ac.at at 9/22/2003 5:16:04 AM
hello! can i change the output format of osql queries in the command line? i don't want to see columns with an unnecessary width. is there a way to see always the smallest column width? i hope that someone knows what i mean. thx for help in advance sincerely, lerod...more >>

How to read data from 3 different servers ?
Posted by meh at 9/18/2003 2:15:41 PM
I have 3 companies, 10 miles apart. Each company has their own static ip address. All three connected thru VPN. I am on company number 1 and mapped company 2 and 3 as drive letter N and O respectively. So now I have company number 2 and three available. I am in a process of writing a stor...more >>

How to set a column to be an identity column in TSQL.
Posted by Jim Mitchell at 9/16/2003 9:25:30 AM
Can someone provide the syntax for setting a column to be an identity column in a stored proceedure. When I export my database, my identity columns are no longer identity columns. ...more >>

Security Over Internet.
Posted by Tony B at 9/14/2003 7:41:59 PM
Hi All I am a newbie with MS SQL. I am curently working on an application which uses MS Sql as the database. The application will be used by approx 5 users on the network, and the data will be available on the web via an asp.net application that allows clients to obtain read only access to t...more >>



Nasty ISPish hierarchy
Posted by Bennett F. Dill at 9/10/2003 3:00:53 PM
Ok here's the deal. I'm doing some work for an ISP / telcom. They basically provide communication from the customer (banks mostly) to the terminal (ATM / POS). So if you imagine a typical network, we're looking at something like... Cust 1 Cust 2 | ...more >>

Retrieving part of a field
Posted by Bruce Wiebe at 9/9/2003 4:06:29 PM
hi all my customer has an sql table that holds the date in the format 08/09/2003 in a text feld does anyone know how i can perform a select on this so that i can retrieve all the records that have the month value of 09 thanks in advance ...more >>

SQL-92
Posted by BugHunter at 9/8/2003 9:13:28 PM
Hi there, I'm working on SQL parser at the moment and want to create a set of tests for select statement. I'm too lazy to type all possible variants of select statement. Does anybody have or can point to the list of possible select statements (I mean a reasonable subset) examples? Thank...more >>

MSSQL vs Disk Defragmenter
Posted by KStahl at 9/7/2003 7:22:38 PM
Will the default disk defragmenter operate on datbase files when the instance is active? What about the full version of DiskKeeper?...more >>

Accounts for SQLServer service vs SQLServerAgent service
Posted by CJM at 9/1/2003 3:17:34 PM
I've just changed the account under which SQL Server starts on my development server. The new account has admin rights, and a corresponding Exchange email account - so I can now receive alerts at various points. I've restarted the server, and the SQL Server service seems to be running OK. H...more >>


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