Ok, now that I am back on this job. I thought I would post some further testing in case anyone looks at this discussion later.

The Linked Server using Native...

This code would go into a stored procedure that is called from crystal reports. On a bit of testing, you only notice a performance hit (slight pause) after the...

I believe the error above is happening as a result of the compiling the stored procedure before running it. I've gotten the stored procedure to work after a failover...

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That's how I set up the Linked Server. I used the FailoverPartner switch in the connection string.

The problem that I have is after it failsover,...

Thanks for that.

I had thought of executing a sql string, but was hoping that I was forgetting something and that there was a simpler (nicer) way. As...

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Here is the code to the stored procedure. This is a test stored procedure to test the ability with.

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[spEncrypt]

@passvarchar(10),

@plaintext varbinary(8000),

@ciphertext ...

Thank you for the help everyone.

The '[[]' works great. It just didn't occur to me to look at the '[' and ']' as they were inside the quote marks.

Thank...

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  I thinkthat the easiest way to accomplish this would be to use

>=Dateadd(year, -1, Convert(varchar(8), Getdate(), 112))

The Convert gets rid of the time element, then the dateadd will make...

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  I am not sure about the batch file, but SQL Server won't allow you to "CREATE TABLE March-30".  It will allow you to "CREATE TABLE [March-30]". 

  The -...

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I would look up the Convert funtion is the Books on Line.  Here is an example of how to use convert.  Also, if you NEED it to be of datetime...

The reason for the difference is this:

Datename and Datepart are require dates, in this case they are being given integers, which are being converted to dates. 

7 is converted to...

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  The reason for the difference is that first one is looking for -- 'smith' -- and the second one is looking for -- smith -- .  The value that...

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  I am not a guru, but I do work with Access 2000 and SQL Server on a daily basis.

  I believe that you have more flexibility when linking...

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Thanks for that. Worked perfectly, I didn't even think that it would be that easy.

J.R.

I can see your suggestion being perfect on different servers, but...

I just ran a quick test using cast, it seems to work for me. The timestamp info is just in a different format. Here's what I did for...