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Nested Triggers

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hi once again, i am working on MS-SQL 7.0. Just Recently we have shifted our database from Access to SQL 7.0. I had normalised the database till 3 NF. Now I am having a field that takes up the office address. The value of the city, state and country comes from 3 different tables. We […]

2001-08-22

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"Unable to ListenOn Connection....

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Last Friday clients started receiving the intermittent error "A database error has occurred: Database error code: 10008. Select error: Possible network error. Bad token from SQL Server: Datastream processing out of sync". The server (NT 4, SP 5, SQL 6.5.416) event log shows Error 17824:Unable to write to ListenOn connection '<server name", loginname 'xxx', hostname […]

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2001-08-21

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Read Cache and Write Cache enable?

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Hi all At present I have both read ahd write cache enabled on my RAID-5 array (4x15k 18gig drives). From what I understand, the write-caching at the hardware level is basically hidden from SQLServer, therefore, sql*server will assume that the write was successful. This of course means without a good battery backup scheme and possibly […]

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2001-08-21

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Extract Password

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I have inherited the SQL server. The password for many logins are not passed on to me. Is there a way I could look into the system table to retrieve the passwords? Some of the client-server based applications could have hardcoded the password and if I change it on the SQL server end, it will […]

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2001-08-20

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Simple SQL-DMO Question

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I'm trying to use SQL-DMO to determine the size of the "northwind" database: Dim oSQLServer Dim oDatabase Set oSQLServer = CreateObject("SQLDMO.SQLServer") oSQLServer.Connect "tower2", "sa" Set oDatabase = oSQLServer.Databases("northwind") Msgbox oDatabase.Size but .Size always returns the results in MB (not fine enough for me). For example, on my computer it returns 5 (MB) while EM show […]

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2001-08-20

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Design Oversight - Preliminary Review

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We all know what the ideal application design environment is for building a database back-end: an experienced DBA takes inputs from end users and developers and creates the database design in order to support the application being developed. But in reality, we don't get the opportunity to do application design like this very often. This article covers how to quickly find and fix problems in a design.

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2001-08-20

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decryption

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hello once again, this time i have encrypted a view and when i open its design view the error comes as : "query designer encountered an unexpected error cant open encrypted view " but the data in the view is seen, now i want to modify the design view but its not working any ideas […]

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2001-08-18

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thanks for suggestions

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hello andy, what i mean by not displayed is that the value for that particular field is being shown as <"Long Text"> and nothing else will try convert ok will let u know if something clicks by using convert thanks keyur

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2001-08-17

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