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all groups > sql server (alternate) > december 2003 > threads for december 29 - 31, 2003

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Upgrading MY preformance
Posted by vncntj NO[at]SPAM hotmail.com at 12/31/2003 10:59:50 AM
Hello all! I'm a newly appointed database administrator and have been struggling with my consious about what would make me an excellent database administrator. I've worked in Access for years and know that if your comfortable with: 1. writing expressions 2. writing some VBA 3. the basics ...more >>


Derived Table Problem
Posted by w.white NO[at]SPAM snet.net at 12/31/2003 10:27:15 AM
I've created this: SELECT c.ProjectID, Count(c.ID) as 'Registrants', Count(dt.Hits) as 'Submissions' FROM CME_TBL c JOIN (SELECT ProjectID, Count(*) as Hits FROM CME_TBL WHERE evalDate Is Not NULL OR testDate Is Not NULL GROUP BY ProjectID ) dt ON c.ProjectID = ...more >>

DBException (Communication link failure)
Posted by second714 NO[at]SPAM hotmail.com at 12/31/2003 10:15:24 AM
Hi, with SQL 2000 and Windows 2000, we're getting lots of this error message "Communication link failure" from our C++ application. Any idea why? Thanks,...more >>

internalization of (generic) application layer software to the database TSQL
Posted by mountain man at 12/31/2003 3:49:06 AM
Greetings to all database professionals and laymen, Let us make a bold assumption that we have developed a software tool for the SQL Server environment which simply acts as an interface between an end-user in an organization and the database, through the exclusive use of stored procedures whic...more >>

Cannot create ADO connection to DB anymore...
Posted by (Pete Cresswell) at 12/31/2003 2:42:27 AM
I rebuilt my machine a few weeks back - re-installed the developer version... The app in question can see all it's tables in the SQL back end via ODBC and everything looks normal via Enterprise Manager, but I can no longer create an ADO Connection. Source code is unchanged, what's changed i...more >>

Accessing Active Directory using SQL Server 2000
Posted by btugg NO[at]SPAM yahoo.com at 12/30/2003 2:44:00 PM
Hello All, I have a linked ADSI Server to our company Active Directory and everything is fine. I'm running queries and such using LDAP. BUT how can I aquire a list of attributes for the classes and categories. Such as if i wanted to see a user's telephone number and email address for use in ...more >>

Simple but complex report
Posted by AstrA at 12/30/2003 12:48:23 PM
Hi All Wondered if you could help. Basically I have 2 tables that contain all the data I want for my report, but I need to put it in a particular way and I need to display it in an ASP page so my queries got to be manual rather than an MS Excel/Query 'munge'. To be honest, the report itse...more >>

Set Difference (I think) Join
Posted by JayCallas NO[at]SPAM hotmail.com at 12/30/2003 11:12:06 AM
I needed to get a list of rows from a table that is not present in another table. My problem lies in the fact that I only want SOME of the rows in table 2 used in determining existance. This happens because table 2 contains historical data (based on report date). Table 1 contains my production...more >>



SQL newbie
Posted by Markus Ratzesberger at 12/30/2003 7:28:22 AM
Hallo! Ich habe bisher nur mit "alten" relationalen Datenbanken wie dBase gearbeitet. Ich würde zukünftig gerne MSDE bzw. den SQL Server oder auch mySQL einsetzen. Was empehlt Ihr zum Einstieg, welche Literatur, gibt es Online Tutorial, ... ? Speziell alles rund um SQL. Vielmehr wie Select ...more >>

SQL Update query to copy data
Posted by rdraider NO[at]SPAM sbcglobal.net at 12/29/2003 8:51:49 PM
I'm a bit of a newby to creating update queries so I was hoping those more experienced could help with what should be a simple query. I do know to create backups and test on a test database first. I need to copy an items' cost from location 'CA' to the cost in location 'OH' when the cost in '...more >>

Inter-database stored procedures and permissions
Posted by junk NO[at]SPAM olaes.net at 12/29/2003 3:25:20 PM
Hello all, this is my second post to this newsgroup. It's a question about stored procedures and permissions and how these behave between databases. Here's the scenario. I have a database that stores information for a system "A", and I have a different database on the same SQL server that sto...more >>

Find blocking process
Posted by second714 NO[at]SPAM hotmail.com at 12/29/2003 1:03:09 PM
Hi, we're having a problem with SQL 2000 and Opta 2000 JDBC driver where there is large update running and at the same time, read is blocked for a while. We're looking for a way to catch this blocking process and if it last more than 10 minutes, then email or send out a message. I know sp_lock...more >>

Linked Server to Oracle
Posted by Sudhesh NO[at]SPAM mail.com at 12/29/2003 9:44:22 AM
Hi, I have an Oracle (8.1) & a SQL Server 2000 database with Production data. There are situations when I need data from both the databases. My first choice was to link Oracle to SQL and run DTS overnight. But this would have a 1 day latency not to mention the time it would take. 1. H...more >>

xp_sendmail with long text messages
Posted by y.ziesche NO[at]SPAM vhb.de at 12/29/2003 2:00:40 AM
Hi everybody, i try to send messages longer than 7990 characters from a text field in SSQL2000. Unfortunatly the messages get cut off after 7990 character. I did everything which is described in BOL (see below). It does not solve the problem. Upgraded to newest Outlook Client and tried to s...more >>


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