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  • RE: Question of the Day for 31 Aug 2005

    vicers (8/31/2005)


    While the syntax for Replicate should be Replicate(character_expression, integer_expression), it shows Replicate(10,' ') in the question, but the expression seems to work too.

    Replicate works due...

  • RE: SQL Server 2005

    I found it usefull in a large database on a server with many CPU:s and I/0 bottleneck, but now we have replaced it with table compression in SQL server...

  • RE: Snapshots

    It is really nice to have a developer edition with all the features that exists in Enterprice, but it is too easy to build a database solution that is not...

  • RE: The Client Executable

    I was soo sure sql2005 and sql2008 used the same, and i was so wrong

  • RE: Conversion Fun

    I encountered this issue a couple of month ago and i solved it with the following udf from ASPFAQ.com

    CREATE FUNCTION dbo.isReallyNumeric

    (

    @num...

  • RE: Truncating the log

    GilaMonster (8/6/2009)


    Chris Harshman (8/6/2009)


    DUMP is a desupported feature, and Microsoft plans on removing it

    Dump is gone in SQL 2008.

    Yes, and have already forgotten the statement, since it has been desuported,...

  • RE: Question of the Day for 02 May 2006

    I just wonder, 77% correct answers but only 24% have answered 8. The result and the question does not make any sense.

  • RE: Question of the Day for 09 Jul 2007

    Kal Penn (7/9/2007)


    Question has the answer.

    "You want to deploy SQL Server Compact Edition"

    Yes, it is obvious, maybe to obvious to some people who really think you can deploy a...

  • RE: Optimizing Indexes

    What does BOL say about fragmentation level? My experience is that you should reorganize when you have a fragmentation between >10% and <=30% (rebuild when it is above 30%) as...

  • RE: SUBSTRING

    sknox (7/10/2009)


    Interestingly enough, the MSDN documentation linked to from the answer incorrectly states:

    "In this case, the number of characters that are returned is the largest value of either the sum...

  • RE: Independence Day

    vitesh.bhana (7/3/2009)


    The only thing I know about Independence Day is this huge alien ship hanging over the White House and blowing everything up 😀

    Me too!

  • RE: Linked server from 64-bit SQL 2008 to Sybase

    There are at least two drivers on the market, DataDirect or OpenLink. Remember that you need OLE for ODBC and the ODBC driver from OpenLink, and it is not cheap....

  • RE: Data Type

    skjoldtc (7/1/2009)


    hakan.winther (7/1/2009)


    Date is one of the most requested data types and finally MS implemented it in SQL Server 2008 and i love it. The new datatypes are just one...

  • RE: Linked server from 64-bit SQL 2008 to Sybase

    calgeorge (7/1/2009)


    I tried to add a linked server on SQL Server 2008 SP1 64-bit on Windows 2008 standard server, using ASEOLEDB provider to connect to a Sybase database. Did register...

  • RE: Linked server from 64-bit SQL 2008 to Sybase

    Elliott (6/30/2009)


    It aint pretty but you could seperate the process up some and move some of it to a 32-bit SQL box that could access Sybase.

    Otherwise you are stuck using...

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