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Error Using SQLHDTST.EXE utility

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Hi Has anyone used the SQLHDTST.EXE utility before? if so, hae you come up with an error right in the beginning of the test? Error Text: App Screen Output: ==================================== The starting time is: 03/12/02 , 11:01:29 Process priority set to: NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS Creating simulated SQL Server device... Device "ftest.fil" created. File size: 512000 2kb pages, […]

2002-03-12

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Bulk Insert and error handling

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I am trying to convert a series of processes currently using BCP, into Bulk Insert on a SQL7 server with SP1. However, I seem to be having issues trapping error conditions. The code below works fine if there are no errors, but if the file does not exist or the format of the file is […]

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2002-03-11

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complicated problem![:(]

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hi! im having a rather complicated query to be written There are 2 tables members and franchisee in two different databases which are in 2 different locations.It is not possible to copy the tables to a common database. I have the following problems 1)How to do a join on the 2 tables? 2)i need to […]

2002-03-09

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PK: Int or Char

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Normally I use identity columns for indexes (if no integer candidate keys are available), but in this case, I am very much in doubt. We need a currency table for a project. This will contain the ISO code for the currency and a name. The other DBA wants to use an Identity PK, I imagine […]

2002-03-08

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Read Ahead Slots

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I'm running a SQL 6.5 server with SP5a. We are getting the message "NO READ AHEAD SLOTS AVAILABLE. RUN SP_CONFIGURE TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF SLOTS". Does anyone know what this message means and/or what might be causing it? All I've been able to find in MicroSoft's documentation is that the read ahead slots configuration […]

2002-03-05

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DTS parallel execution

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I heard (from a guy at MS) that the DTS packages when run will only run about 4 operations in parallel. There is a tweak that can be used to increase this. I was wondering if anyone can tell me what it is. Thanks.

2002-03-03

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SQL server in USA - Datetime format problems...

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Please can anyone help ? I'm over in USA. I've got USA VB apps talking to USA SQL SERVER 2000 database. I need to bring this back to England and demo over there - however, when setting the computer's regional settings to British UK from English(American), I get: out-of-range datetime value Microsoft OLE DB Provider […]

2002-03-01

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Problems scheduling DTS

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I have a DTS that I can execute manually. It extracts data from SQL01 server to SQL02 server. However, when I try to run this job automatically by scheduling the DTS or Start Job it produces the following error: DTSRun: Executing... DTSRun OnStart: DTSStep_DTSExecuteSQLTask_1 DTSRun OnStart: DTSStep_DTSDataPumpTask_11 DTSRun OnStart: DTSStep_DTSDataPumpTask_12 DTSRun OnStart: DTSStep_DTSDataPumpTask_13 DTSRun OnError: […]

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2002-03-01

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