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Best Practices - SQL Transactions
Posted by Don Miller at 4/30/2006 8:41:13 PM
I have a web app (ASP) that does all updates, inserts by calling transaction-supported COM+ components (with the transaction started in the ASP page, i.e. transaction=required) that use ADO to call stored procedures (that usually involve single tables). If there is any error (missing SP, paramet...more >>


UNICODE question
Posted by Ranginald at 4/30/2006 8:26:39 PM
I have an INSERT statement that breaks when I try to use an apostrophe s. INSERT INTO tblProduct (name) VALUES('John\'s Store ') name is varchar(20). What is the correct formatting to produce the text John's Store ? Thanks. ...more >>

SQL Server 2005: error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified
Posted by maneeshkhare NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 4/30/2006 4:13:59 PM
I have the following setup: 1. ASP.NET 2.0 web app hosted on a web server (inetpub directory hosting physical files of the web site on a different drive name, E: than the SQL Server Instance, which is on C:) 2. SQL Server on the same server, with security settings enabling ASPNET group and grou...more >>

Splitting a String
Posted by scott at 4/30/2006 2:52:03 PM
I've got a field that contains a Name and Type seperated by a slash. The only consistant "rule" of the EXAMPLE RECORDS is that each record is seperated by a slash. As you can see, some contain numbers and some don't. I'm failing miserably because of lack of knowledge of string functions. Ca...more >>

SQL 2005: Replication: location of snapshot files?
Posted by Mark Findlay at 4/30/2006 1:05:27 PM
When viewing an instance's Replication properties in SQL 2005, clicking on the "Snapshot" icon in the left side shows the options for the "location of the snapshot files". The location can be a default folder or a designated folder. Such as C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL...more >>

How do I make a field automatically get its values from another fi
Posted by Sam at 4/30/2006 12:37:02 PM
Hi, In my table I have a "PaymentDate" field which is used to store payment schedules for our clients. I want to add a new field in the same table and call it "UpdatedPaymentDate" field as most of the time our clients don't stick to original payment schedules. How do I make the default v...more >>

Calculating Hours, Mins over 24 hour periods
Posted by scott at 4/30/2006 12:26:00 PM
Below I'm returning the decimal duration [decDuration], a HH:MM:SS format without "padding" 0's [realDuration], and a HH:MM:SS format with "padding" 0's [realDuration2]. If you run my EXAMPLE, in RESULTS below you'll see that [decDuration] and [realDuration] work fine, but [realDuration2] l...more >>

how to prevent 2 users from running the same front end process at the same time
Posted by Keith G Hicks at 4/30/2006 12:13:05 PM
I have a process in my application that should only be performed by one user at a time. Some folks have suggested that the way to do this is to have a table in the db that has a column to store the name of the user that's running the process (a flag of sorts) so that if another user tries to run...more >>



COPY to a .txt file
Posted by Roy Gourgi at 4/30/2006 11:34:53 AM
Hi, How do I copy the rows in my table into a .txt file comma delimited. I tried COPY mytable TO '/presentation/myfile' WITH DELIMITER ',' but it does not work TIA Roy Gourgi ...more >>

how to ALTER COLUMN ?
Posted by Helmut Woess at 4/30/2006 12:00:00 AM
Hi, i do a create: CREATE TABLE myTable ( id int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL) and now i want to remove the IDENTITY definition from colum id using ALTER myTable ALTER COLUMN id ... ?? so that column id has definition as when i do a: CREATE TABLE myTable ( id int NULL) How can i do this? th...more >>

bug in string processing if the GO keyword is inside the string
Posted by martin at 4/30/2006 12:00:00 AM
I encoutered a strange behavior using the exec command and I could repreduce the behavior with the print command: the command: print '1 2 3' is doing it's jub, but if i add go inside the string I get the floowing error: print '1 2 go 3' Server: Msg 105, Level 15, State 1, Line 1 U...more >>


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