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all groups > sql server (microsoft) > april 2004

formatting date field
Posted by Jarod_24 at 4/30/2004 4:22:01 PM
How do i format a DateTime file in a sql-query? I got a sql sentence like this: "SELECT Name, DateRegistered FROM Customer;" The "DateRegistered" field comes out as "2004-05-10T00:00:00.0000000+02:00" I need it as "DD.MM.YYYY". Is there any function that i can use, like "DateFormat" i...more >>


Reporting Services
Posted by Bryan Bullard at 4/29/2004 5:45:04 PM
Can anyone share there experience with using MS Reporting Services. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

DB fixup after migration
Posted by d_lwl NO[at]SPAM hotmail.com at 4/27/2004 10:05:56 PM
We have a recurring problem due to the use of a naming convention where database names are suffixed by the environment (e.g. SD for development). The result is that after a database copy from production to development, all references to objects in a different database would have the wrong qua...more >>

Extented Procedure / COM issue
Posted by carlbjames NO[at]SPAM yahoo.co.uk at 4/27/2004 8:49:58 AM
Aplogies if I've published this in the wrong group; not sure where it should go!! I have an extended stored procedure written in Delphi. Basically it makes a number of COM calls and returns a psuedo result set as if it were a normal query. Now, the COM objects are solid, and the dll that i...more >>

Easy way to replicate an entire server?
Posted by mike NO[at]SPAM ovidinc.com at 4/23/2004 7:56:36 AM
I have two SQL servers on the same network which need to be replicated. One is just an online backup for the main one. It has a ton of databases on it. Is there an easy way to replicate the entire server, without having to publish each database? Am I going about this the wrong way? Thanks ...more >>

Problem Running sproc using linked server
Posted by Kayda at 4/21/2004 5:19:13 PM
Hi: I have setup a Sybase Linked Server and am trying to run a stored procedure against it. When I execute the sproc, it tells me that there are too many prefixes, the maximum is 3. But I thought it was necessary to use 4 for the sproc. Here is the sproc, which otherwise works fine if I import...more >>

MSDE 2000 SP3 Connection Problem
Posted by Mark Miles at 4/20/2004 11:41:00 PM
I am have a problem which has only just started happening while trying to connect (locally) to MSDE 2000 (SP3a) which also prevents me from using VS.NET Server Explorer. When I try OSQL -E -S mimpc\NetSDK (this use to work) I get the following error [Named Pipes]SQL Server does not exist...more >>

Error writing to SQL database from Access
Posted by daryljharrison NO[at]SPAM netscape.net at 4/20/2004 1:43:46 PM
Greetings, I am developing an application that writes values from an Access 2000 database to an SQL 7.0 server using DAO and linked tables. It seems to work fine for the first 26 of 108 tables, but part way through the population of the 27th table it stops and displays a 'Runtime Error 3001 I...more >>



Cannot See a Newly Installed SQL Server 2000 (No Active Directory)
Posted by jaykchan NO[at]SPAM hotmail.com at 4/20/2004 5:45:37 AM
We have just installed a SQL Server 2000 (SP 3A) onto a computer that has Windows-2003 Server on it. Now, we cannot get access to that database server from other computers. Seem like this may be an issue with Active Directory. Our network consists of Windows-2000 Servers (SP 4) and Windows-200...more >>

Nested Full Text Queries
Posted by John Doe at 4/20/2004 1:19:16 AM
Can someone help me or provide a workaround? The object is to select all articles which are not references to other articles. The problem I am having is when I try to get the ReferenceCount (which is the count of articles which reference this article) it is throwing a 42000 (Error 170: Line 6:...more >>

How to set default value of a column to current year
Posted by Dino Buljubasic at 4/19/2004 7:54:41 PM
Hi, I have a colum "AYear" in my table and would like to set its default value to current year (i.e. 2004) How can I do that? Thank you, Dino...more >>

SQLServer 2000 Installation
Posted by Christopher J. Stephens at 4/19/2004 3:16:50 PM
Hi, I am just installing SQL Server 2000 on my desktop running Windows XP Pro and intend to install the Client tools onto my laptop and do my access from the laptop. When I install the latest service patch, will I also need to install it on the laptop as well for the Client tools? I am ...more >>

Where can i get this SQL 2000 PRESP4 Fix ?
Posted by W e Z at 4/16/2004 2:09:15 PM
Hi All, I Believe i have the error listed in this MS KBA: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818095&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH But i have searched MS High & Low but connot find the "supported fix". Please can somebody help me!! Regards, W e Z ...more >>

Backup Job Fails, but Command Works in Query Analyzer
Posted by michael [multnomah] at 4/16/2004 1:17:18 PM
Hello. I am completely stuck as to why my backup job is failing. I have a job which backs up all user databases. All of the user databases get backed up no problem, except for one. That one fails with: BackupDiskFile::OpenMedia: Backup device 'D:\BACKUP\EMPMART_PRD\EMPMART_PRD_db_200404...more >>

inserts inside a transaction get committed even though stored procedure fails ?
Posted by maellic2002 NO[at]SPAM yahoo.fr at 4/15/2004 6:41:04 PM
Hi I have a stored procedure full of insert statements inside a transaction. One of my insert statement has an error in it so I would expect that none of the insert statements get executed. However I have noticed that at least the first insert of the stored procedure gets executed even if one...more >>

How do I speed up this query ? (1.7M table entries)
Posted by Alan Silver at 4/14/2004 6:32:17 PM
Hello, I have a table containing position data for all of the postcodes in the UK. There are around 1.7 million of these. I would like to be able to query the table and pull out all postcodes within a specified distance of a given one. The code I have at the moment takes about 20 seconds to...more >>

Suspicious Write Lock
Posted by sgowell NO[at]SPAM mphi.org at 4/13/2004 10:08:37 AM
A co-worker has developed a web application that reads from a sql database named "mlci". Roughly every 12 hours, whether the application has been particularly active or not, we get a write lock that prevents the application from writing to our table for managing users (changing a bit field from ...more >>

SQL Server/ADO/XP problem "query cannot be executed"
Posted by George Copeland at 4/12/2004 10:42:31 PM
This is a request for help fixing a SQL Server 2000/ADO problem on Windows XP. I would appreciate any useful assistance. PROBLEM: SQL Server access on my machine fails as follows: 1. All of my VB6 apps reference the following ADO typelib: Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.7 Library Locate...more >>

Matching Strings In Different Tables Of Same Database
Posted by Smith at 4/11/2004 12:13:56 AM
I have a situation where I want to pull strings from one table of a SQL 2000 database and find matches for it in other tables of the same database and have those values returned. i.e. In one table I have prospects and I want to match their names to a table that stores the names of prospects tur...more >>

Dynamically building a Tablename in a stored procedure
Posted by Kayda at 4/7/2004 4:57:39 PM
Hi: I am building a stored procedure off of a particular application's data. This application has event data stored in tables with table names that are dependent on the day. For example: EventData04072004-this table contains data from April 7th, 2004 EventData04062004-this table contains da...more >>

Simple query on huge table uses Index Scan instead of Seek
Posted by John Hendrikx at 4/7/2004 2:46:00 PM
We're experiencing a problem on SQL Server 2000. We're doing a very simple query on an unique index field results which performs bad because the Optimizer decides to use an Index Scan instead of an Index Seek. The query we're testing is below: SELECT * FROM hugetable WHERE unid='abcd...more >>

SQL Server slower than MS Access
Posted by trnospam NO[at]SPAM earthlink.net at 4/7/2004 5:10:36 AM
(sorry for the cross post - not sure where most people are on these sites) We're having trouble with a new SQL Server installation upgraded from MS Access. A very large update query affecting 750,000 records with an inner join takes more than an hour to run on SQL Server and was actually fas...more >>

Data Compression possible in SQL Server?
Posted by Jack Victor at 4/6/2004 4:55:23 PM
Hi, I'm wondering if it is possible to compress the data in SQL Server. For instance, in Oracle, there are routines you can use in stored procedures to compress and decompress data. Is this possible to do in some way with SQLServer? Thanks! Jack...more >>

defination in script
Posted by Roy at 4/6/2004 2:17:47 PM
Hi All, I need to create a script, of an existing table, and create the table on another database. Everything works except, it did not include the definations. Is there an option I am overlooking that would include the definations? I am using Enterprise Manager and all tasks, Generate SQL Scrip...more >>

SELECT & number of line
Posted by myname at 4/5/2004 12:21:37 PM
Hello, I'm using SQL Server 2000. I would like each line of my SELECT to contain a column giving the number of the current line. It seems the only way to do that is something like: INSERT identity(int,1,1) as lineNumber,* INTO newTable FROM oldTable But oldTable as an identity column...more >>

Finding and inserting consecutive pairs
Posted by myname at 4/5/2004 11:12:42 AM
Hello, I'm trying to insert into a table consecutive pairs from another table. Right now, I'm using a cursor but I wonder if there's a faster way. Example: My table1 contains a column of integers: 1, 20, 3, 45, 12 I want to obtain this in a two columns table Table2 : (1;3) (3;12) (12...more >>

Need Help with complex stored proc SQL Server 2000
Posted by mlr263 NO[at]SPAM netscape.net at 4/3/2004 1:13:22 AM
Hi, I have a table which specifies relations between two people (person1, person2, relationship). An individual could be listed in either the person1 column or the person2 column. If I want to find all the relations for a specific person, I need a stored procedure which would search both co...more >>


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