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queries Vs Stored Procs
Posted by Nickl at 12/31/2004 9:43:02 PM
I often use a chain of queries to produce a final output. Eg to prepare aggregate data, or to set up generic queries which are then used in many other queries to simplify things. My question is this; how much advantage performance wise will I get if I make those sub-queries stored procedures...more >>


Loading a set of Records
Posted by Gopinath R at 12/31/2004 6:10:35 PM
Hello All, I have a Table named DVDVideo in the Stage database (StageDB) as well as in the Production DB (VideoMediaDB). On a weekly basis, the data have to be moved from StageDB..DVDVideo to VideoMediaDB..DVDVideo. In StageDB..DVDVideo, one can find the following types of records : [1]...more >>

Cursor operations
Posted by Andrew Clark at 12/31/2004 5:23:58 PM
Hello, Suppose the following: DECLARE test CURSOR FOR SELECT nameID, firstName FROM testing DECLARE @array TABLE ( nameID INT NOT NULL, firstName VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL ) DECLARE arrayCursor CURSOR SCROLL FOR SELECT nameID, firstName from @array DECLARE @index INT, @count I...more >>

Can Indexes effect Bulk Insert/Update Operations
Posted by Siz at 12/31/2004 5:22:58 PM
Hi, I have a suspicion about using Bulk Insert/update on indexes tables whether they bogged down performance or not. Or dropping indexes and/or constraints at start of bulk operation and then creating them again at the end will help or not ??? Can Indexes effect bulk insert and update opera...more >>

True or False question.
Posted by Miguel Dias Moura at 12/31/2004 3:13:57 PM
Hello, On a users table I have a field which indicates if the user is authorized or not. Is there a Boolean type in SQL database 2000 or should I use integer type? What is usually used? Thanks, Miguel ...more >>

How to edit a Microsoft SQL database online?
Posted by Miguel Dias Moura at 12/31/2004 3:04:36 PM
Hello, On a web site I manage I have a Microsoft SQL database. As administrator I would like to easily edit, access, delete, add any record in the database tables while the database is on the server where I host my web site. Is there any software to do this? Something like Enterprise...more >>

Happy New Year to All
Posted by Pike at 12/31/2004 2:52:20 PM
In case you haven't noticed:) ...more >>

where would be ideal location for tempdb and translog?
Posted by === Steve L === at 12/31/2004 2:32:30 PM
sql2k. i've read it some where that transaction logs and the TempDb should be place on a RAID 1 (mirror) drive. I have two questions about the statement: 1. is it only limited to transaction logs? can log files (ldf) benefits from the same idea? 2.how can I move a tempdb out of its defau...more >>



Summarizing data, grouping by time period.
Posted by Nevyn Twyll at 12/31/2004 1:44:01 PM
I have a table of student incidents, including absences from school, listing the student ID, the date of an incident, and whether it was an absence. I want to get a result set from this table showing me ON ONE ROW, the studentID, and the absences split up by term. Table: [Incidents] Perti...more >>

error in executing SELECT statement
Posted by Dzemo at 12/31/2004 11:55:09 AM
I get this message when executing SELECT statement in SQL 2000: Location: recbase.cpp:1374 Expression: m_nVars>0 S PID: 51 Process ID: 2480 Why? Any help? ...more >>

SQL 2000 slowness
Posted by yung.robert NO[at]SPAM northropgrumman.ca at 12/31/2004 11:12:32 AM
Hi, I have a very strange problem. I have one sql 7.0 box, and one sql 2000 sp3 box. An ASP app that we've been running off of the 7.0 is now running about 10x slower on the 2000 box. The 2000 has more ram, faster processor, and both are running on WinNTsp6a. I have checked all the possib...more >>

How to rethrow errors from catch block?
Posted by Alexander Jerusalem at 12/31/2004 4:45:06 AM
I was hoping for a more streamlined error handling now that we get try-catch but I seem to be running into a few problems. One very important idiom with try-catch is to first rollback the transaction and then rethrow the original exception in the catch block. How can I do that for system error...more >>

DATEADD Command
Posted by Robert at 12/31/2004 4:33:01 AM
Hi, I Have the following bit of SQL in a stored procedure: SELECT DISTINCT ref FROM U_NFADHOC WHERE CONVERT(DATETIME,DATE) BETWEEN DATEADD(MONTH, -12,CONVERT(DATETIME,@enddate)) AND CONVERT(DATETIME, @enddate) AND RESPTYPE='NF Cash Donation' Currently (as I hope you can see) it is ...more >>

stored procedure error
Posted by Robert at 12/31/2004 2:01:02 AM
Hi Would it be possible for someone to check my code for the stored procedure shown below. I'm passing a date parameter into it, and then checking that the donor has made at least one payment every year from the parameter date. It did work when I first ran the query, but now it's coming up ...more >>


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