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Interrupted Update Query. Lost changes?

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i was running a bad update query in QA and canceled the job midway by hitting (X) in upper right corner. The query was changing EVERY record. I cannot tell if only a few records were changed. I did a controlled test on a test table and no changes were made. Could any of the […]

2001-10-01

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copy data to SQL Server by checking (available)

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Hello, I connect from SQL Server on Windows 2000 to Progress Database on UNIX. The database name of SQL Server is cstarsql and the name is cstarint on UNIX. I would like to schedule to copy data from cstarint(Progress) to cstarsql(SQLServer). I did for one time, but I want to control if the data has […]

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2001-10-01

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Need help in using query

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somebody please tell me how to query data like below table : test.dbo ID Desc qty ----------------------- 1 Oil, chem 1 2 Oil, chem 1 3 gas, oil 1 4 bez, oil, gaz 1 ----------------------- how to show all desc = "oil" using select if in visual foxpro should be like ... "brow for alltrim("oil") […]

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2001-09-28

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SQL Agent stops unexpectedly (SQL 2000 SP1)

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Our SQL 2000 machine had SP1 installed recently and since then the SQL Agent stops with no warning and with no apparent pattern except mostly on the hour or half hour. e.g. 7:00 AM, 12:30 PM, 9:30 AM etc None of the tasks run by the agent have been executed at all the times that […]

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2001-09-26

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Aliasing Problem

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Can i use a alias name in a "where" clause to filter records. eg. select employeename en, age from employees where en like 'a%' i am getting an error 'en' column not found. how do i get over this problem. Paras Shah Evision Technologies Mumbai, India

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2001-09-26

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dbo user with a NULL Login

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Have you ever come across this scenario? I know you can have logins without users, but users without logins????! If I create a new database on this particular server the dbo instance in the new database is also NULL. I've checked MODEL and in this and all system databases dbo has a login of SA […]

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2001-09-26

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