I think the nature of your problem is functional, not T-SQL related. An ip4 address is a set of 4 bytes (i.e. ranging from 0-255). Ip addresses are not defined...

How do your users enter their data into these tables? Do they create new rows in the tables using T-SQL insert statements? I'm asking because it would seem a responsibility...

Are you, by any chance, working on getting the iso week number? Because if you are, have a look at this article[/url] (remember to follow the discussions link, there are...

forsqlserver (8/19/2011)

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Can it possible the date format should change At the time of insertion/updation from hrms database to forefront database on the forefront database table's column,as I have written...

Then give us the DDL for the table in HRMS (the source of the information) and we can give you the select statement giving the forefront admin the dates in...

forsqlserver (8/18/2011)

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Hi Chris,

Thanks,

I have not much idea about trigger.

Can I set the below scriptlet in a insert ,update trigger.

if data already exist then update should run otherwise insert should run.

use...

Asking for distinct values requires SQL server to do an additional task. Not only does it need to find and return all data matching the specified criteria, it now also...

It's a fairly obvious one, but have you tried this?

alter PROCEDURE [dbo].[brw_Rec]

@rId numeric(18,0),

@rId2 numeric(18,0) = NULL

AS

BEGIN

SELECT RID,PA_ID

FROM...

The time difference you notice will be from the fact that the query on your new version is completely different from that on the first version. If you don't change...

Using a better pattern for your cursor loops you would have easily spotted this one. I always write my cursor loops (when I do write one ;-)) like this:

declare cur...

Oh, and one more that can be very handy during testing:

declare @xml xml;

select @xml = convert(xml, x.BulkColumn)

from openrowset(bulk N'c:\test.xml', single_blob) as x;

This reads the contents of the...

Here are a few more tricks related to reading xml.

On top of Lutz' suggestion to use cross apply to traverse the nested node elements, I can add to also retrieve...

Sadly, we don't enforce putting in comments (development team of 22 people, of which 6 are mostly working with T-SQL). But we have all agreed to doing it and most...

It is not good practice to include binary columns in an index. Indexes are meant to be re-arranged easily, having large objects in them makes it hard to re-arrange them.

On...

Yes, please explain this further as it is not clear what you want: For example, do you want to change the table's definitions to have the column removed from the...