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Try this......

select isdate('29 Feb 2003') = 0 (False)

select isdate('29 Feb 2004') = 1 (True)

I have also lost the Performance Counters for SQL on one of my servers, although it was upgraded to SP3 (along with my other servers) a while ago and therefore...

1. There are no MsgBox or Input command in the script.

2. The filepath is a local path and not a network path.

More importantly, I have now found another way to...

Thanks Phill, but using Function Main() stalls the job in the same way as not using Function Main().

You could try concatenating the two values together with say a pipe delimiter then returning them as a single varchar.

You would then have to split them up again in the...

You will find that you cannot use the RAND function within a UDF since it is non-deterministic.

As a work around you could create a view which returns a random number...

Asking SQL to exclude certain Tables from the Transaction is unlikely to be possible.

Transaction integrity is one of the core aspect of a databases ACID compliance, it is very unlikely...

I think you will find that the ROLLBACK will also rollback anything you have written to your audit tables.

In line with the way that many other applications work, you should...

By using parameterised calls to sp_executesql, it is possible for the query optimiser to generate reusable query plans. (See BOL).

You need to look at using a dynamic SQL statement where you build the statement as a varchar (string) and then execute it.

declare @sql nvarchar(4000)

set @sql...

What security access is required for the account under which the SQL Server is running under on the server.

I am sure that many people may be using an sa account,...

Don't worry, found the answer....

select *

from openxml (@idoc, '/root/item', 3)

with (id int '@id',

item varchar(15) '.')

The correct answer states Enterprise Edition, should this not be Enterprise Manager?

SET IDENTITY_INSERT aaa ON

....straight from BOL!