mmm I was thinking too hard...u're absolutely right...

I thought there is a specific key syntax for slicing the data, like 'union' ....

thank you very much for your answer

thanks guys for all your response...

In some case, the requirements need to view data like that, I mean to view data where contains a key word.

Such as, I want to...

thanks for ur response....

so, union is better than "where condition using OR operator" ?

try to read transaction locking in BOL...

I think the best is to use "set transaction isolation level read committed" in your query

suppose you want to delete file test.txt in directory c:\tes.txt, so just copy this code :

exec master..xp_cmdshell 'del  C:\tes.txt'

xp_cmdshell  --> this command is used to do any operation data like...

try this ....

declare @name sysname

set @name = 'yourUserDB'

select * from dbo.sysobjects

where uid = (select uid from master.dbo.sysusers

where name like @name)

cheers......

alexia

The easiest ways is to query from Query Analyzer, with first connect to the server you want to query data.

The other ways, is to add linked server in your master...

try this one :

declare @colA varchar(50),@colB varchar(50),@colC varchar(50)

  select @colA=colA,@colB=colB,@colC=colC from tblX

   where id = '1' -- this is the one that you want to get the data from

update tblX

set...

you should make the parameter input like this from the application code : '''101''','''103''','''105'''

then, create a stored procedure to update using "IN" clause..

create procedure procA (@inputParameter varchar(255))

as

begin

declare

thanks guys...for all your inputs...

I think I prefer  "distinct" to remove duplicate records...but when I need to count or do some aggregate...

okay, I'll try that one...

thanks...

You should use stored procedure

for example:

create procedure getData

(@dateBegin datetime,@dateEnd datetime)

as

begin

select name,address,birthdaydate from tblX

 where birthdaydate between @dateBegin  and @dateEnd

end

execute getData '1980-01-01','1981-01-01')

You could use this SP

This SP is paging 20 rows per page...if you want to change how many rows in one page, just change the number '20' in this SP...

Try this :

USE NorthWind

CREATE PROC GetRegions_XML

 @empdata text

AS

begin

DECLARE @hDoc int

DECLARE @tbl TABLE(state VARCHAR(20))

exec sp_xml_preparedocument @hDoc OUTPUT, @empdata  

INSERT @tbl

SELECT StateName

FROM OPENXML(@hDoc, 'root/States')  

 WITH (StateName VARCHAR(20))

EXEC sp_xml_removedocument @hDoc  

SELECT...

maybe you could try like this in your SP or query:

create table #temp(@field1 int,@field2 varchar(10))

insert into #temp

       select a,b from tableFrom

select * from #a

then, when you're not using the...