I think this can be done by using locking hints for the update/insert statements...

To use the table hints the insert/update statements within the stored procedure can be written as :

Insert...

I think the charindex function can be used to compute varying lengths...something like this :

Select Substring(@X,charindex('-',@X),Charindex('-',@X,Charindex('-',@X)+1)-charindex('-',@X))

a little messy - I think there should be a better way to do this...

basically...

would storing the results of the select in a temp variable and printing that temp variable result in any changes...??

i.e something like :

Declare @Ctr Int

SELECT @Ctr = Count(*) from customers

Print...

I found the following in SQL 2000 BOL :

"SQL Server 2000 supports a new text in row table option that specifies that small text, ntext, and image values be placed...

and no prizes for guessing....

*couldn't resist that*

I assumed it would be something like "find all respondents for a particular product combination" or "find total value for a particular product combination" and similar things...

unfortunately not the first...

now based on my understanding of the problem you have a view that is something of the type

col1 col2 col3

a      b      c

a      c      b      i.e the product combinations...

and then you have the responses table with...

I think you need to use dynamic SQL to get this done at runtime...

something like this :

Declare @sql NVarchar(500)

Declare @v-2 Char(1)

SET @v-2 = 's'

SET...

I think this query should work out...

and you should check out this excellent script by Antares on pivot tables http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/contributions/204.asp

SELECT

FundSourceName,

SUM(CASE [Quarter] WHEN '1' THEN Amount ELSE 0...

Excellent article on the TEXT datatype...since I have a few Text fields in my database I was badly in need of an article like this for quick reference...

I especially liked...

I think you might be able to get by with a derived table...i.e put in the aggregate function in the derived table and join it up with the original query....

this...

Hi,

How about setting the colum type for this column as something like varchar(20) during import and then using the convert(datetime) function to convert this varchar value into a datetime value...

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Hi mgutzait,

The way I see it - you need to have a increment value that starts from 1 for each division value...

When the table is created just give the default...

I think some testing should (hopefully) help in figuring out what is happening...

a)create another table with the same structure as the table in which the double inserts are occuring and...

Hi Greg,

the 3 stars are the plus sign - for some reason the plus sign doesnt appear in my machine here...

and Antares' query is faster...why am I not surprised...