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  • RE: dealing with timestamp

    [font="Verdana"]I'm going to differ somewhat from the reponses already presented here.

    The combination of default for inserts and triggers for updates will work well. However...

    From a database design and even...

  • RE: Advice - Connect Excel directly to the database - good idea?

    funkyd (2/6/2009)


    They are head of Finance so that's not really an issue.

    [font="Verdana"]Tell that to the head of HR.

    Some thoughts: you can create a login and grant it the data reader...

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    [font="Verdana"]Ah, gotcha.

    My first exposure to 64-bit Oracle was 8i on Solaris. So I don't think it was 64-bit that was the issue.

    However, 9i introduced a lot of new features....

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    Gift Peddie (2/5/2009)


    8i was released almost 2000 and 9i was released in 2001 while 10g was 2004/5. And I read from Oracle's Jim Melton it does not scale and...

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    Gift Peddie (2/5/2009)


    Heh? Access is relational

    You starting in it does not make it relational starting with the data types, aggregate functions and DRI trigger wizard which is actually invalid in...

  • RE: Sorting by character field

    [font="Verdana"]It is, as you suspected, using "some sort of character mapping". In SQL Server terminology, this is known as the "collation". The collation defines not only the set...

  • RE: Finding the number of occurences of a substring within a varchar field

    [font="Verdana"]Thanks for the link! I'll have a look at it.

    The way I would have done it (without dropping into CLR) is simply to have a loop through the string...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    [font="Verdana"]There are sailors in the Navy? Who knew... 😛

    One of my tutors (who also became a friend, because we were both nuts of the Acorn technology, which you...

  • RE: Query needed

    [font="Verdana"]Judging by the change in wording in the descriptive section, this looks to me to be some sort of assignment or exam question.[/font]

  • RE: Struggling with a query between a lookup table and a real table

    [font="Verdana"]I hadn't thought of using timestamp that way. Clever![/font]

  • RE: Find a Substring between two strings

    APARNA (2/4/2009)


    When i use Patindex('ON', mystring) it does not return the string position and when I use Patindex('%ON%', mystring) it considers the ON in vLocation.

    [font="Verdana"]Try:

    charindex(' ON ', @myString)

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  • RE: How to add multiple columns into a new column

    [font="Verdana"]In the front section of your SQL code:[/font]

    josephptran2002 (2/4/2009)


    SELECT dbo.BOCLEARED.BOCLEARED, dbo.CTCLEARED.CTCLEARED, dbo.MECLEARED.MECLEARED, dbo.NHCLEARED.NHCLEARED,

    dbo.TotalCleared.TOTALCLEARED, dbo.TotalCleared.CLEAREDDATE,...

  • RE: Long running query

    [font="Verdana"]Are you sure that's the query that is taking all of the time? I can run it on an instance here, and it returns instantly.

    I haven't heard of the...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (2/4/2009)


    Bruce W Cassidy (2/4/2009)


    Bob Hovious (2/4/2009)


    I just have to blink and be the first to ask.

    Is this thread dead?

    [font="Verdana"]Dunno about the others, but I've been getting therapy.[/font]

    But I...

  • RE: Date Function

    [font="Verdana"]Okay. How about:

    select convert(varchar(6), convert(datetime, 'AUG2007'), 112)

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