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  • RE: Transactions hanging when calling remote stored procedures

    Well then, how far have you gone looking into if DTC is configured properly?  The setup, checking the log(s), tracing, etc.

     

  • RE: If Exists and @@Error

    One does not typically try to capture @@error for the select statement contained within the IF EXISTS. 

    In the case of an assignment select, result set select, or a create...

  • RE: Transactions hanging when calling remote stored procedures

    RPC means many different things to different people, you might want to show the code in your "SendMail" proc.  (like specifically, by RPC do you mean a stored proc on another...

  • RE: Should I change my avatar

    You're a young wippersnapper... I go back to 300 baud with the hand set cradles.  Back in the days when televisions were still propane powered...

  • RE: Is XML the Answer?

    My only question:  Why did you have to spend any time researching to find your answer?

    Did you think that a mass of people can't all jump on the bad idea...

  • RE: Should I change my avatar

    That's the spirit! Every little bit counts.  Now, the next step is dots and dashes.  Morse was a genius!

     

  • RE: Find the current running statement text

    Are you tracing at the statement level within the procedure?  That is, default level is just one entry for EXEC storedprocname... start at/end at.  Detail allows the trace to show...

  • RE: Joke tellers convention - a suggestion or query

    I'm just thinking to save the responders time: RTFFAQ is quicker to type.

  • RE: Splitting Tables

    The answer is yes, it is easy to do. (Assuming you're SA and are going to run it as SA)

    Write a TSQL select statement that creates/formats a 147 BCP...

  • RE: Challenge for SQL Gurus: Grouping and outer joins

    The real stump the SQL Server guru question is to ask him the correct syntax for a cursor...

    OK, I have to stop now, starting to sound like a broken record.

  • RE: Sorting by Date

    I don't have sql on this box so can't verify but I think Sql 2k allows you to sort by something not displayed. i.e. select convert(datecol...) ... order by datecol

    Otherwise,...

  • RE: Deadlock Problem!!!

    if not exists (...) begin

    begin tran

    get your totals

    insert the row

    commit tran

    end else begin

    begin tran

    update...

  • RE: Certification Thoughts - Part II

    Something else that I think was lost in a post I made...

    Though I hate, despise, spit upon... silly certs... Everytime a friend asks me to give advice to their children/nephews...

  • RE: Should I change my avatar

    "BTW, you've inpired me to finally set up an avatar image...go creative commies!"

    DOH! Another one slips over to the darkside...

    Resist people! Don't be lured into the evil waste of...

  • RE: Deadlock Problem!!!

    Yes.

    Don't do that.

    Don't insert then update. Insert only.

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