Maybe I missed the point you were trying to make, but it sounds like you may need to come up with an ordered list first, likely in a CTE, before...

Do you have the list of new values in a table? If so, you can do an UPDATE like this:

UPDATE r SET

Cost_AM = t.Cost_AM,

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Just my 2 cents, but personally I'd say it depends on how much each index is being used and if it is a clustered index or not. In 2005...

Using SQL Server 2000 client software to connect to SQL Server 2005 Express server should work. However, if you try using Enterprise Manager or Query Analyzer you would experience...

jason.stephens (9/15/2008)

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It is my understanding that you can add all the files you want to a file group for a particular database, but the DBMS manages what goes where inside...

What's your intended destination of these 200,000 rows? One option may be to right click on the resulting data and select "Save Results As...". Another option is to...

If these client machines do have Windows installed on them but you're just scripting something to run in command line (DOS) mode, you can use the SQL Server Configuration Manager...

jay holovacs (8/29/2008)

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FROM agrt778 INNER JOIN

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Actually what I use to keep my database files defragged is the CONTIG utility from Microsoft Sysinternals, a free utility available in the file and disk utilities section of this...

It's an internal thing because of the size of each page of SQL Server's data files is 8K, with a few bytes used for the page header information. The...

The BEGIN TRANSACTION itself doesn't hold any resources as such, but once you do any INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, or SELECT depending on your transaction isolation level, then locks start taking...

Are there other columns in this table? Looking at your example, I'm not sure how to enforce the order of the rows so that it properly keeps the related...

What did you need to do with z and Z ?

There's a view called sys.master_files that has the size of each file in 8k pages, this has all system and user databases in it.

It definately changes the results in outer joins. If the query was:

select .... from table1 t1 left outer join table2 t2 ON t1.col = t2.col and t1.col4 = 'sdsd'...